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In Reply to: horizontal resolution posted by wolfy on April 21, 2015 at 11:29:06:
...I know that what I hear as the BEST-sounding, most-transparent* recordings, ever, from my system are always SACDs mastered in DSD. Never have I observed with my ears HIGH transparency to discover the recording was mastered in 44.1MHz PCM of any bit depth. I really enjoy the spaciousness and concerthall naturalness of BIS recordings, but when I buy a BIS SACD and listen and am NOT impressed with its (lack of) transparency, it's always mastered in 44.1KHz PCM. I wonder why they do that?
The absolutely best, most-transparent Classical-music recording I've ever heard is a TELARC, titled Grieg/Dvorak/Elgar, number SACD-60623, now discontinued I believe. The Rotterdam Chamber Orchestra plays the Holberg Suite, the Serenade for Strings o. 22, and Serenade for Strings o. 20, respectively. Polyhymnia recorded it in DSD. I and a golden-eared friend, independent of my observations find the Elgar to sound best, and when I listen to that and when the moon, stars, other planets, etc., are all aligned, it really sounds as if I'm in the hall, sitting on a stepladder a few feet behind the conductor, with those 31 musicians playing just for me. The jillion dollars I've spent on my music-reproduction system over the decades is all worth it then.
* 'Transparency' describes the sense of there being NOTHING but 10 to 20 feet of air between me and the musicians.
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