In Reply to: sound quality on Kempe/ R.Strauss recordings... posted by BJordan on December 10, 2006 at 21:36:13:
A DVDA of the Kempe Zarathustra and Alpensinfonie was issued by EMI in 2000. Actually, it was one of my first hi-res discs, as it could play on my then Denon DVD5000 which wasn't a DVDA player. One side has the analogue tape at 24/48 in stereo playable on all DVD players, the DVDA side has four channel 24/48.When I was a teenager, I bought the LP of the Alpine symphony, and I vaguely remember it had a quadraphonic logo on it. If this is correct, possibly the Dresden recordings were poorly transferred to stereo. I only have 2 channel, but the sound is fine. Yes, perhaps a little 'flat', but the orchestra is recorded slightly more distantly than normal, and hence sounds more like what a concert audience would hear.
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Follow Ups
- Re: get it on DVD A - Ramesh 00:28:20 12/13/06 (2)
- Yup - DVD-A if you can - Chris from Lafayette 00:56:35 12/14/06 (1)
- Zarathustra needs new sticks - Ramesh 21:05:43 12/14/06 (0)