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| 844.1 | How are the Silver Line recordings | BPOV09::JMICHAUD | Think about software that thinks! | Wed Aug 05 1987 09:18 | 6 |
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Is the sound quality as good as their regular cd's. I have been
tempted to try one of these disk. If you wouldn't mind sharing
the info...which disk did you purchase? How did it sound?
john//
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| 844.2 | good so far | DSSDEV::CHALTAS | No thanks, I'm trying to quit... | Wed Aug 05 1987 10:14 | 8 |
| I bought one -- a 1971 recording of Alfred Brendel playing
Schuberts B-flat major sonata (his last) and the Wanderer Fantasy.
I bought it because my cassette copy was getting rather worn.
The music and performance are both superb. The recording is very
good, but there is some tape hiss (not much). It's my favorite
disk, but I was already predisposed to like it.
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| 844.3 | | NCVAX1::FISK | | Thu Aug 06 1987 11:58 | 13 |
| As of today, I have purchased seven of the Silver Line CD's. My
selections include Dvorak's New World and Symphonic Variations,
Mozart's Symphonies #'s 40, 29 and 35, Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue,
An American in Blue and Piano Concerto in F, Beethoven's Violin
Concerto and Romances for Violin #1 and #2, Beethoven's Piano Concerto
#5 (Emperor) and Fantasia for Piano, Chorus and Orchestra, Stravinsky's
Rite of Spring and Petrouchka and Mendelssohn's Symphony #4 and
Midsummer Nights Dream. All are of a quality that I keep going
back for more. There is some tape hiss in the Stravinsky disc but
fades from my non discriminating ears as the Rite of Spring begins
in earnest. Again, it is a good way to build a basic repetoire.
I will generally however spend the extra dollars if the piece is
on my all time favorate list.
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| 844.4 | REmastered high quality analog | HUSKER::HENDERSON | Something by Beethoven please. | Sun Aug 09 1987 00:18 | 25 |
| I have the Beethoven piano concerto # 5 also and find the recording
quality very good.
I have studied recording tecniques and have SOME experience with
live mutitrack recording. One thing that most people dont realize
is that there is not much difference between an original digital
recording and an analog recording done with proper care on top line
equipment. Yes IF DONE PROPERLY the digital is better, BUT, great
results can be achieved with good analog equipment. In the past
the limitation was the vinal records and the dynamic range from
well recorded analog masters had to be compressed. With the advent
of the CD this is now not the case and many of these older high
quality analog recordings are being remastered to digital machines
and then transfered to CD. This is the case with the Philips Silver
Line. I am not at all afraid to buy one of these recordings as the
Philips people have always taken great steps to insure quality.
I can only hear just a little tape hiss on the Beethoven and then
only with headphones or my speakers (Polk Audio RTA 12's, I love'em)
on a VERY high volume.
By the way DG also has a line out similer in price and quality to
the Philips Silver line. I brought some Mozart piano concerto's
and they are good quality also.
Nebraska Marty
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