In Reply to: RE: Which title do you recommend? posted by Analog Scott on July 21, 2017 at 04:06:10:
Yes Japanese pressed Kings are expensive. That's why I thought if you had an experience with both the Speakers corner ( 35$ ) & King ( 90$ + ) of Sheherazade.
Luckily, many of their Decca titles are not my fave performances but a few I consider ponying up for if they sound better than cheaper alternatives. ( Kyung Wha Chung and Crespin's Sheherazade )
re: Speakers Corner:
I need to go back my inventory, but the one I can definitely remember is the Ansermet/de la Suissse Romanade Firebird.
I think that most people would opt for Speakers Corner reissue: Excellent frequency extensions with natural note decays. A hefty low end bloom, slam and impact. More modern EQ applied it seems. Massed strings and fiddles are clean and sweet except for a few spots. Greater instrument separations. A low tape hiss noise albeit stark sounding at times and def. the sound of brass is affected in the process. Closed mic'd with lots of details in midrange, too.
What's not to like really. Except that when I put on my mint blue back London reissue, self noise is higher but it has a better in-room presence and natural instruments colour. Brass instruments sound more natural to my ears. Odd that this version sounds less pondering and faster especially at the finale. It has a magnetic power to make me listen unlike the Speakers Corner reissue which is somewhat hifi-ish to these set of ears.
Now I haven't check the dead wax info on my London so it's possible that Tony Hawkins did not work on my copy. ( hence very different balance )
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- Thanks! - kuma 17:08:39 07/21/17 (0)