It may sound more detail on the original and not so much present as the superbly successful new transfer. The overall sound quality on this xrcd is dynamic, quite a bit better than a standard cd. The reiner sound hdtracks the worlds greatestsounding. I have three, and i bought them for specific recordings whose cd incarnations were unavailable or otherwise deficient in sound. Fritz reiner chicago symphony the reiner sound discogs. Ims synthesis provides independent control over pitch, timing and timbre. While avoiding the many audiophile test discs typically promoting boring, obscure music, these cds represent the height of mainstream musical production. All brands analog production bailey chesky cna concord eva sound fone groove note master naxos opus premium rock in ss stockfish sts tas telarc top music universal venus. Fritz reiner chicago symphony the reiner sound 1993.
From a 1958 red seal living stereo lp comes the mussorgsky classic suite of 15 movements. Jvc xrcd jmcxr0008 fritz reiner and chicago symphony. All of the instrumentation is vibrant with supple layers. The clapping and cheering even comes out clearer and cleaner, the synchronisation of the camera angles and microphone positioning is an absolute joy to experience as it works all 5. The xrcd of bill evans sunday at the village vanguard is excellent. Jvcs extended resolution compact discxrcd tas 203 the. I think it mostly has to do with the care taken in the mastering process. With the reiner sound, we have yet another example of three classic rca red seal performances from 195657 restored to original brilliance by the engineering staff at acoustic soundsanalog productions. This kontakt instrument is made for creating chopped vocal melodies and motives easily. Extended resolution compact disc xrcd is a mastering and manufacture process patented by jvc victor company of japan, ltd for producing red book compact discs. Though considered a tyrant at the podium to many a musician, reiner groomed the chicago symphony into arguably the finest in the land. According to jvc, they start at the mastering stage to make a clean transfer, so theoretically it should sound better, however i dout it will be any better than any well recordedmastered redbook cd. Xrcd was created by a team that included alan yoshida, akira taguchi, shizuo nomiyama, dave collins, and andrew garver. They retain the formats position of being in almost every case the highest fidelity digital version of the original recording be it originally analog or digital in nature while still using the standard 44.
With the help of fxsound enhancer two main drawbacks are eliminated the cut of high frequencies and insufficient separation of the stereo and its depth, and also adds surround and super bass modes. Audiophile reference recordings australias only audiophile music store specialising in audiophile quality recordings. Access virus ti patches prophet rev2 patches by ultimate. Just a caveat, i dont have a lot of xrcds so my experience is limited. Iii focal jmlab 3 demostration cd 1998 focal jmlab 4 demostration cd test focal jmlab 5 demostration cd the spirit of sound focal jmlab 6 demonstration cd foro royalaudio 2004 cdtest n. Analogue productions rca living stereo lps sacdsacoustic sounds.
Xrcd vs sacd vs cd general av discussion stereonet. Our host likes the bill evans xrcd of sunday at the village vanguard the best, but i prefer the apo sacd. Fritz reiner the reiner sound hybrid 3channel stereo sacd capc 2183 sa original price. The reiner sound cd, jan2002, jvc compact discs ebay. Although many listed are remastered versions mfsl, dcc. Jvc xrcds fritz reiner and chicago symphony and reference. However i think its the mastering itself that makes it great and not the xrcd format. Chicagos orchestra hall reverberated to the strains of the composers musical gallery show, and the superclean jvc processing gives us more of the reverberations in that hall than we have. Nero soundtrax can work with acc, aiff, ac3, ogg, wav and many more formats, including its own nwf and npf file types. Complete your fritz reiner chicago symphony collection. Recorded with canon g12 from my humble hifi system in listening room, to test sound quality, not for any other purpose of business. Supposedly, 48 of these 60 have never been previously issued in digital format.
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I have decided that putting together a list of lps consisting mainly of rare, unknown artists and labels almost impossible to find, would be a useless exercise. For the most part, the dcc gold and sacd miles davis discs are better than their xrcd counterparts. For bags groove the dvda from japan is also better than the xrcd. For collectors or music amateurs, the reiner sound is a good place to start if you want to sample the artistic scope of reiner cso in their prime. As mentioned the tony bennettbill evans xrcd is superb. I bet it would sound every bit as good as a non xrcd cd. Watching and listening to the live recording of the eagles on dvd on a 5. It includes not only my own present collection, but all the new audiophile records i sold as a dealer in the 1980s and 1990s, the huge amount of mainly used records i purchased in the last 25 years and the enormous amount of records that have become available for me to audition in the last 20 years, when i began selling used. Jun 22, 2014 download xrcd, xrcd2, xrcd24 packs 382 albumsaudiophile torrent or any other torrent from lossless category. In the xrcd everything comes a little bit more from the depths of space. Great savings free delivery collection on many items. The few jvc xrcd titles i have are all absolutely excellent.
An xrcd is priced about twice as high as a regular fullpriced cd. Dec 17, 2016 at the end of october of this year, sony classical released a third boxed set. This is one of only two orchestrachoral recordings made with reiner and the cso during the living stereo era, the other was beethovens 9th and each one featured the newly formed chicago symphony chorus. Download xrcd, xrcd2, xrcd24 packs 382 albumsaudiophile.
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