On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 11:06:31 -0400, Kalman Rubinson
wrote:
On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 00:59:47 GMT, (paul packer)
wrote:
Was "lucky' enough to find some John Williams on a Sony Classical
SACD-only disc for just AU$5.00--Cello Concerto/Elegy for cello etc.
Trouble is, the music's horrible and the SACD sound is not as good as
many of my CDs, This is my first taste of SACD and I'm disappointed.
Admittedly I can only listen in stereo, but surely I should be hearing
some improvement. Anyone else got this disc?
I have it and it is mediocre. However, you are judging SACD by one,
unfortunately, very poor example.
Actually I'm not at this stage. That's why I wanted feedback.
First, it is an old performance
which is limited by the older recording technology that was used to
record it. Second, it was recorded in multichannel of an entirely
difference technique/channel alignment than is used today and which
required remixing to create an artificial mix. Third, you are in
2channels (but are you listening to the stereo and not the MCH
track?).= I don't see how all that is representative of what SACD can
do.
Kal
All this is useful---thanks. I certainly sustected this disc was not
the acme of SACD. As for what I'm listening to, SACD comes up in the
display (Pioneer universal player), and in any case this is an
SACD-only CD. I tried it in a CD player and it doesn't work.