[78-L] Count John McCormack Vol. VII, 1904-1906. "Produced to Pearl Quality Criteria"

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I ordered all nine of the Naxos McCormack edition CD series via the US Amazon site and have received 7 thus far. Two I have received from two different US vendors(still in the shrink wrap), and the five other titles came from vendors in the UK and Switzerland. Of those two of the five were still shrink wrapped and three were used. 

Dennis "Cuckoo for Copyright" Forkel


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From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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Sent: Wed, Jan 9, 2013 3:59 pm
Subject: Re: [78-L] Count John McCormack Vol. VII, 1904-1906. "Produced to Pearl Quality Criteria"


The Naxos titles aren't available in the US thanks to copyright problems, but 
can be ordered from Canadian and European dealers.

dl

On 1/9/2013 3:56 PM, Don Cox wrote:
> On 09/01/2013, Ryan Wolfe wrote:
>
>> In my experience the transfers on Pearl are always varying quality.
>> One of the worst CD's of 78's I've ever heard was the Mary Garden one
>> they did, unbearable surface noise that sounds like when you play a
>> Dolby tape of a noisy 78 with the Dolby turned off. .
>>
>> Some McCormack ones I have on Pearl, like "Where The River Shannon
>> Flows" exhibit all the same types of problems you mention.
>>
>> Or "Music Of The Night" a collection of his late sides that was done
>> by the late, esteemed Roger Beardsley, which unfortuately has
>> artificial reverb and fake stereo-izing applied.
>>
>> I'm a big fan of McCormacks's late HMV sides and pick them up on 78's
>> when I can. But on my to do list is to acquire the complete set of
>> late recordings (on Pearl) that was transferred by Ward Marston. I'm
>> pretty confident that it will be good.
>
> How about the 9 CDs of acoustics on Naxos, also engineered by
> Ward Marston ?
>
> Regards

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