Cracower
Member
Hello everybody!
I haven't been here from such a long time, but it doesn't mean, that I gave up! I've made some nice conversions...
Purchasing Quad vinyls isn't too easy in Poland, although we've got 'Polish Ebay' called Allegro.pl, where sometimes you can get them - usually in good price. I've bought some items, which aren't on Mark Anderson's list:
- L. van Beethoven's 9th Symphony by Rudolf Kempe with Munchener Philharmoniker
- 2 LPs with highlights in German from Verdi's 'Aida' and Gounod's 'Margarethe' (better known as 'Faust')
All of them are from EMI Electrola. I've bought also Verdi's 'Ballo in Maschera' by Muti with New Philharmonia - it's on Mr. Anderson's list, but what is interesting, only German edition on Electrola label (which I own) has got SQ sign. As I see, it was common for EMI not to mark their quadraphonic records, esp. if they weren't on German or English labels.
I've got also two records from Angels Records (under license of EMI):
- Lanner's 'Waltzes & Galopps' by Boskovsky with Johann-Strauss-Orchester
- Strauss' 'Wiener Blut' by Boskovsky and Philharmonia Hungarica
The last is just being decoded, and in queue I've got Haydn's 'Creation' in QS by Vox and famous 'Four Great Toccatas and Fugues' by E. Power Biggs playing four organs in cathedral of Freiburg.
Now something about by 'technologies'. 'Cause my player is Sony, ot definitely doesn't accept DVD-A... So I'm using DTS 96/24, which as I read is good enough.
And what can I say about the sound? Well... Marvellous, that's certain. Especially vocal recordings; in orchestral sounds it makes audio more spacious, nothing more. But when you're listening to the opera, it makes you just sitting in the middle of the action - so something, which is impossible ever in live stage performances!
And so, e.g. in 'Aida' you find yourself in the middle of Egyptian temple, or surrounded by screaming crowd and monks, while victorious Radames is returning in sounds of triumphal march... And the powerful Easter chorus form finale of 'Faust' in rear channels is something really great.
BTW, those German vinyls have got quite good descrition, what and where should quadraphonic listener hear. And it is so, which shows, that Mr. Kempfand's scripts work really good!
Huf, that's enough, I think...
I haven't been here from such a long time, but it doesn't mean, that I gave up! I've made some nice conversions...
Purchasing Quad vinyls isn't too easy in Poland, although we've got 'Polish Ebay' called Allegro.pl, where sometimes you can get them - usually in good price. I've bought some items, which aren't on Mark Anderson's list:
- L. van Beethoven's 9th Symphony by Rudolf Kempe with Munchener Philharmoniker
- 2 LPs with highlights in German from Verdi's 'Aida' and Gounod's 'Margarethe' (better known as 'Faust')
All of them are from EMI Electrola. I've bought also Verdi's 'Ballo in Maschera' by Muti with New Philharmonia - it's on Mr. Anderson's list, but what is interesting, only German edition on Electrola label (which I own) has got SQ sign. As I see, it was common for EMI not to mark their quadraphonic records, esp. if they weren't on German or English labels.
I've got also two records from Angels Records (under license of EMI):
- Lanner's 'Waltzes & Galopps' by Boskovsky with Johann-Strauss-Orchester
- Strauss' 'Wiener Blut' by Boskovsky and Philharmonia Hungarica
The last is just being decoded, and in queue I've got Haydn's 'Creation' in QS by Vox and famous 'Four Great Toccatas and Fugues' by E. Power Biggs playing four organs in cathedral of Freiburg.
Now something about by 'technologies'. 'Cause my player is Sony, ot definitely doesn't accept DVD-A... So I'm using DTS 96/24, which as I read is good enough.
And what can I say about the sound? Well... Marvellous, that's certain. Especially vocal recordings; in orchestral sounds it makes audio more spacious, nothing more. But when you're listening to the opera, it makes you just sitting in the middle of the action - so something, which is impossible ever in live stage performances!
And so, e.g. in 'Aida' you find yourself in the middle of Egyptian temple, or surrounded by screaming crowd and monks, while victorious Radames is returning in sounds of triumphal march... And the powerful Easter chorus form finale of 'Faust' in rear channels is something really great.
BTW, those German vinyls have got quite good descrition, what and where should quadraphonic listener hear. And it is so, which shows, that Mr. Kempfand's scripts work really good!
Huf, that's enough, I think...