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Suggestion Box / Good recordings with unsatisfactory LPs
« on: March 24, 2008, 10:13:59 PM »
One important area the TP can address is the problematic LPs produced from otherwise good recordings. This tends to happen much more with wide dynamic range, complex music such as large orchestral works. Some works are just impossible to cut onto LPs without significant compression. Recordings with a lot of bass information can be a problem too.
Most obvious would be some of the Mercury recordings that many have mentioned. Other obvious deficiencies:
Orff Camina Burana (except the German Phonix Edition which puts the piece onto 4 LP sides. Sadly, this LP is extremely rare and expensive)
Beethoven 9th Symphony (best being the MFSL Decca Solti recording. Even then, the climax in the last movement is compressed and can get confused)
Verdi Requiem (even the King Superanalog LPs are compressed)
Mahler 8th
+ many many more highly dynamic orchestral pieces.
I see less reason for doing simple acoustic vocals or small ensembles (jazz or classical). The tapes might offer improved transparency and lower distortion, but many LPs of such music are already very satisfactory.
We made a recording of the complete Strauss Elektra opera with the Hong Kong Philharmonic a couple of years ago. I made the two channel backup tape with just a couple of Nagra IV-S with QGB, running at 15ips using Nagramaster equalization. Even with the limitations of a live concert recording, the dynamic impact from the session master is at a totally different level from any commercial recordings I have heard on LPs or SACDs.
Most obvious would be some of the Mercury recordings that many have mentioned. Other obvious deficiencies:
Orff Camina Burana (except the German Phonix Edition which puts the piece onto 4 LP sides. Sadly, this LP is extremely rare and expensive)
Beethoven 9th Symphony (best being the MFSL Decca Solti recording. Even then, the climax in the last movement is compressed and can get confused)
Verdi Requiem (even the King Superanalog LPs are compressed)
Mahler 8th
+ many many more highly dynamic orchestral pieces.
I see less reason for doing simple acoustic vocals or small ensembles (jazz or classical). The tapes might offer improved transparency and lower distortion, but many LPs of such music are already very satisfactory.
We made a recording of the complete Strauss Elektra opera with the Hong Kong Philharmonic a couple of years ago. I made the two channel backup tape with just a couple of Nagra IV-S with QGB, running at 15ips using Nagramaster equalization. Even with the limitations of a live concert recording, the dynamic impact from the session master is at a totally different level from any commercial recordings I have heard on LPs or SACDs.