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In Reply to: DG Originals shrill posted by jkend on November 20, 2002 at 06:56:41:
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Thanks for the link to your earlier posts. Same thing happened to me last night listening to Gergiev conduct the Vienna in Tschaikovsky's 5th. The performance is riveting, the mid range and lower range stuff sounds great--resonates, gets good sound stage, etc. But throw a lot of violins in, and that piece does a great deal of it, and it gets harsh.Question: is that the same as the often used phrase of grainy to describe high ends or is the harshness you and I are talking about a step further into audio hell?
It's probably both, grainy like hell. It only happens with most DG recordings.I'm trying to get some Japanese pressed DG (wonder if there's any available) and see if they've taken the glare out.
Even the US pressings of DG is bright.
On the graininess of DG cds. I find it varies. All the Originals discs I've played have: placed the music in my face, given me wonderful midrange and low experiences, and offered unnecessarily harsh and shrill high ranges particularly with multiple violins. But the regular DG varies. I just played Boulez doing Mahler's 6th. None of the above problems or at least none I heard; whereas the DG of von Karajan doing Grieg's Pier Gynt suite has the graininess problem (to put it kindly).
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