Czilla9000
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.........so far the highest quality recordings of orchestral music that I have listened to are, IMO, MCA and Phillips Classics "Eloquence" recordings.
I have listened to JVC's XRCD2 recordings (which are nice) and Telarcs 50 KHz--->2.8 MHz DSD---->44.1 KHz "Audiophile" Compacts Disks only to be unimpressed. By all means these recordings are adequate, but nothing special.
In contrast I am impressed with the quality of the MCA soundtrack recordings I have. The "Jurassic Park" soundtrack sounds very nice and real. The "Hunt for the Red October" soundtrack from MCA sounds very good as well, except for some funny sounding cymbals. A Danny Elfman compilation CD I have also sounds brilliant - and no surprise - it is from MCA.
The closest thing I have gotten to the MCA quality of recording in classical orchestral music is from the Phillips Classics "Eloquence" series with "AMbient Surround" Technology.....and even those classical pieces starred in movies!
(Keep in mind that my mother works for a symphony orchestra, so I know what real unamplified music sounds like.)
Why is it that soundtracks (from MCA) seem to sound so much more real than hardcore classical music from "audiophile" record companies? All of the "Audiophile" CDs I have tried lack dynamics and sound veiled and overly warm. It is like they decided to tame the music so old folk could listen to it.
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I have listened to JVC's XRCD2 recordings (which are nice) and Telarcs 50 KHz--->2.8 MHz DSD---->44.1 KHz "Audiophile" Compacts Disks only to be unimpressed. By all means these recordings are adequate, but nothing special.
In contrast I am impressed with the quality of the MCA soundtrack recordings I have. The "Jurassic Park" soundtrack sounds very nice and real. The "Hunt for the Red October" soundtrack from MCA sounds very good as well, except for some funny sounding cymbals. A Danny Elfman compilation CD I have also sounds brilliant - and no surprise - it is from MCA.
The closest thing I have gotten to the MCA quality of recording in classical orchestral music is from the Phillips Classics "Eloquence" series with "AMbient Surround" Technology.....and even those classical pieces starred in movies!
(Keep in mind that my mother works for a symphony orchestra, so I know what real unamplified music sounds like.)
Why is it that soundtracks (from MCA) seem to sound so much more real than hardcore classical music from "audiophile" record companies? All of the "Audiophile" CDs I have tried lack dynamics and sound veiled and overly warm. It is like they decided to tame the music so old folk could listen to it.
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