rroseperry
Headphoneus Supremus
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Right now I'm listening to a 128 bit mp3 of Pablo Casals, Isaac Stern, and four other musicians play a Brahms Sextet (op.18) at the Prades Festival in 1950. The file was ripped from a vinyl recording I bought about forty years ago. When I made the file, I didn't know anything about bitrates and basically was just pleased to have a version of this that I could carry around.
This is poor quality recording, but it's the only one I'm likely to have of this performance. It's not on CD anywhere and it's long out of print. I take a lot of pleasure in the performance, even knowing it's a crap recording.
But on many threads, I get the impression that after a certain point of audio development, people can't listen to poor (like my 128 bit mp3) because it's just too painful to hear the audio (not performance) imperfections.
So I'm wondering, are there performances that you'd listen to with pleasure, even if they're poorly recorded, because the performance is wonderful or unique? Or is SQ queen/king?
This is poor quality recording, but it's the only one I'm likely to have of this performance. It's not on CD anywhere and it's long out of print. I take a lot of pleasure in the performance, even knowing it's a crap recording.
But on many threads, I get the impression that after a certain point of audio development, people can't listen to poor (like my 128 bit mp3) because it's just too painful to hear the audio (not performance) imperfections.
So I'm wondering, are there performances that you'd listen to with pleasure, even if they're poorly recorded, because the performance is wonderful or unique? Or is SQ queen/king?