Whitehall
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In my so far limited experience with surround sound, one album stands out as the best performance and mix yet - E. Power Biggs playing Bach Toccatas and Fugues.
Although there is some tape hiss from this old recording, the spatial mixing of a giant organ makes one feel that he is sitting right behind the organist in a huge cathedral. The various registers of pipes (is that the right terminology?) are arrayed around the front of the hall and the reverbration time is magnificent. Too bad my subwoofer is awaiting a new cone seal. One can hear the mechanical action of stops being changed and even the echo from that. Those big pipes just thunder at times.
This one really gets the music's message across - God is very big and you had better pay attention.
I love Bach. :sun
Although there is some tape hiss from this old recording, the spatial mixing of a giant organ makes one feel that he is sitting right behind the organist in a huge cathedral. The various registers of pipes (is that the right terminology?) are arrayed around the front of the hall and the reverbration time is magnificent. Too bad my subwoofer is awaiting a new cone seal. One can hear the mechanical action of stops being changed and even the echo from that. Those big pipes just thunder at times.
This one really gets the music's message across - God is very big and you had better pay attention.
I love Bach. :sun