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06-15-2025

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Romy the Cat

Boston, MA
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With very very rare exception...

I have wrote already that Bruckner is not lucky in term of LP that releases. I think I have if not all, but most of the the Bruckner LP performances. I do not feel that it worth bothering! Besides the fact the most interesting performances were recorded at the time when recordings were digital, I sincerely feel that playing those famous performances on good, I mean really really good, digital front end delivers better result from Sonic perspective. Also, I observe that pretty much all great historical recordings release digitally at very decent level at this point. And obviously, the most important point I really do not want to go to turntable and flip a record when I need to go to the last moments....

"I wish I could score everything for horns." - Richard Wagner. "Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." - Friedrich Nietzsche

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Romy the Cat

Boston, MA
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Ah, those cathedrals...

steverino wrote:
The only recording I see for a Wand Sym 8 1987 NDR recording is a live performance in the Lubeck cathedral. I could only find one video of the cathedral interior. It looks very long with immensely high ceilings but relatively narrow. I was trying to figure out where they put the large orchestra. In looking at the church seating, I counted only about 14 seats wide.
Has rowuk or any other poster here been inside the Lubeck cathedral?

Do you like sound from cathedrals then and you have audio that can handle it respectfully (and if you have no reverberation channels then your audio cannot do it) then get yourself a treat of your life and get this box set Helmut Walcha playing Bach.

https://a.co/d/6KzaT9Q

Some of those performances from my point of view is the best Bach you can get, either from musical or sonic perspective.

"I wish I could score everything for horns." - Richard Wagner. "Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." - Friedrich Nietzsche

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steverino
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Worshipping

Romy,
We all know that with audio it is rarely an all or none matter. I have no problem with venue recording, i.e. not in a studio but obviously the musicians, the engineers and the masterers can mess things up. With respect to audio, I have no issue hearing plenty of reverb (reflected sound) if the recording is not close mic'ed. Even through the computer (with external DAC and tube headphone amp) I can hear well controlled reverb. I tend to hear a bit more on a well recorded LP than a CD. SACDs provide a bit more reverb info but they have other issues compared to CDs. It is mainly pop recordings that sound mostly dry, because they often are concurrent mono. The vogue for lots of added reverb went out in the 60s for the most part in the pop world. Now my systems are not at your levels or state of the art, so I am sure others hear the reverb quantitatively better, but I am hearing quite a bit myself and don't feel a strong need to add more reverb in the majority of classical recordings. Pop recordings are a different matter.

Yes I have Walcha's Bach recordings. Some of Leonhardt's recordings of Bach and others have a lot of venue reverb too

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