[78-L] SACD (was: Mutter's Kreutzer)

[David Lennick]

On 10/3/2011 5:43 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>
>> A couple of years ago I picked up a few SACDs on sale at either Borders (the
>> late) or Barnes&  NoBull (just try and find ONE interesting CD there these
>> days)..Mercury and BMG. The Buffalo station still raves over them whenever they
>> play them.   dl
>
>
> And then they pass them thru limiters, compressors, and other signal
> processing gizmos on it way to their dynamic range-and-frequency
> response-limited transmitter.
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

Actually they don't..WNED has some gain normalizing but the least obtrusive 
I've ever heard. I know they have SOME because they have one announcer, whose 
initials are Michael Zuchawich (sp?), who keeps his mic at low level compared 
to the music and promos, and who sounds fine on the air but is inaudible on 
Rogers Cable 938 which is totally uncompressed (and which sounds wonderful).

WXXI-FM in Rochester, on the other hand, compresses the living daylights out of 
everything and persists in using AAD recordings, which sound gawdawful. One 
time they ran a live Russian recording of the Firebird Suite, and it sounded as 
if it was recorded at the wrong end of a high school cafeteria that was being 
set up for lunch.

dl

>
>
> On 10/3/2011 3:41 PM, Jeff Sultanof wrote:
>> SACD was marketed just as poorly as Beta was. I love my SACDs; the sound is
>> incredible. They weren't priced low enough and are now difficult to find.
>>
>> I just hope that someone has the foresight to realize the incredible sound
>> that is capable on Blu-ray discs and tries some audiophile releases in the
>> medium. I'd love to see a reissue of some of the really good quadraphonic
>> releases, just as one example.
>>
>> Jeff Sultanof
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 3:00 PM, DAVID BURNHAM<burnhamd at rogers.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> I have just listened to A. S. Mutter's recording of Beethoven's Kreutzer
>>> Sonata and the performance and sound just blew me away! Granted this is an
>>> SACD, which is without question the Culmination of recording technology - it
>>> can't get any better - but unfortunately, this format was deep-sixed by
>>> Polygram and Sony and the music loving public is all the poorer because of
>>> that. The format had a frequency response pretty well from DC to over 100
>>> khz; the dynamic range covered the sound of an empty recording studio to
>>> the volume of a jet plane, and it doesn't take educated ears to appreciate
>>> the magic.
>>>
>>> db
>
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