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Christine and I

. . . Ms. C. Tham sure makes it sound like we now have a Wotan, a Brunnhilde, and a Siegfried all at once, after lacking same for over 30 years.

Christine and I have certainly had our run-ins on the SACD (Hi-Rez Highway) board over the past year and a half. I think what is frustrating to me is that she often makes grandiose, absurd-sounding claims (“There are no bad recordings” or “Eight-track tapes had frequency response out to 30KHz”) which are true only in a very narrow, not commonly understood sense. (For instance, she conveniently didn’t mention how many decibels down the eight-track tape response would actually be at 30 KHz!)

Anyway, I found her reviews of the Aussie Rheingold and Walküre on SA-CD Net to be quite informative in terms of objective information. (On re-reading her Walküre review, I now see that the production team used 65 microphones – even more than I had remembered!)

But I remain dubious about Christine’s musical taste and experience. For instance, her frame of reference seems to be the Solti/Culshaw Ring, although she also refers to the ENO Ring and a Walküre from Sydney. If these productions are the only basis of comparison with the new Aussie Ring, then readers and listeners have every right to be skeptical of the review.


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