[78-L] CBS Great Performances

[David Lennick]

Mind you, I forgot that my experience is only with the Canadian pressings, 
which were excellent at that time. Better in all ways than the original 
Canadians, which were done on regrind until 1971, and probably better than what 
the US was grinding out. I remember tons of bits of plastic that hadn't been 
trimmed inside those paper sleeves of US Columbias in the late 70s, not to 
mention the scratches they created when rubbed against the discs.

dl

On 1/24/2013 7:22 PM, Don Chichester wrote:
> Thanks for your thoughts on these!
>
> Don
>
>
>> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:40:26 -0500
>> From: dlennick at sympatico.ca
>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] CBS Great Performances
>>
>> Their CD equivalents were pretty barebones and I can't recall picking up many
>> of them, but the lps in the late 70s or early 80s were well pressed. In the
>> case of reissues of early stereo recordings, they were probably better mastered
>> in many instances.
>>
>> dl
>>
>> On 1/24/2013 4:11 PM, Stewart, Joseph R wrote:
>>> Don Chichester asked:
>>> For years I've been picking up these CBS LPs at thrift shops. What is the opinion of their sound? Are they well processed?
>>>
>>> I think they'd be excellent buys at thrift-shop prices. We had tons of 'em at KSMU in the pre-CD era, and they always seemed to be decent enough remaster jobs and pretty well pressed--often better quality than CBS's lowest-price reissue series, Odyssey, at any rate. The Great Performances series may not have the "collectability" of original "6-eye" and "2-eye" Columbia Masterworks gray-label pressings of the same recordings, but I honestly doubt most of the original LPs actually sounded all that much better. (It IS Columbia we're talking about, after all.) Needless to say, the performances (Bernstein, Szell, Ormandy, Walter, Stern, Gould et al.) are top-notch.
>>>
>>> Randy Stewart
>>> Arts Producer
>>> KSMU
>>> 901 S. National
>>> Springfield MO 65897
>>>
>>>