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發表於 2015-1-6 06:46:18
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Hi Thomas,
I would suggest you only buy the CD of the Belafonte because this live recording was made in 1959 (I just checked) onto analogue tape. Even if a SACD is available, it was resampled in recent years and to be sold at over 2 times the CD price. Not worth to pay the difference for such resampling in my view.
Eagles's Hell Freezes Over: Would you please tell me which track has the audience clapping around the listener? I have listened to the whole album perhaps only twice and later focussed mainly on Hotel California. The audience only appears near the back wall, that is, at the back of the stage as well as on the side.
An audio setup in Stereo mode reproduces a speaking voice from each of the 4 corners of the listening room is beyond my imagination. And I have never read about such possibility anywhere. I am pretty sure my system is unable to do that no matter how I juggle the stuff around.
You mentioned you have downloaded albums from 2L. Have you got 2L- 050 Simple Symphony and 2L-090 Souvenir de Florence? Based on the stage layout and notes, these recordings were made for 5 channels surround, with 20 odd players sitting in a circle and microphones placed in the centre. Playing the mixed down DXD in two channel, my system is only able to reproduce the ensemble sitting around the two speakers, that is, the microphones being placed at the plane of and between the centre of the two speakers. The layer of players sitting between the listener and the speakers only appear at loud passages and are very faintly heard when they play soft. Of course in a real concert, they all sit facing the audience. It so happened the Moscow soloists performed these two numbers in Nov last year; only the second movement of the Simple Symphony and all four of the Souvenir. By the way I preferred the sound of St Martins in the Fields that came also last year. Hall acoustics did not affect the sound as I always couch at the centre seat of the first two rows, with mainly direct propagation reaching me. |
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