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Re: nice seeing your post

Posted by dirkronk (A) on May 18, 2007 at 06:04:12

In Reply to: nice seeing your post posted by docw on May 17, 2007 at 16:37:17:

Hi docw.

"I followed your advice and picked up some good Epic gold label Szell LP's, some disappointing though (Dvorak New World copy not good)."

Does that mean (1) you don't like the performance? (2) you like the performance but the transfer doesn't seem impressive sound-wise? (3)performance & transfer are OK but the specific copy/pressing you got was flawed/noisy as hell?

Gold radial Epics are frustrating: they're so-o-o wonderful IF you can find them in pristine shape, but even mint vinyl of that era seemed to have sonic grit built in. The blue label Epics generally have much quieter vinyl, but the transfers seem to be ever-so-slightly less impressive overall.

As for the Szell Dvorak, I may have already conveyed this story: I had all but given up on ever finding a sonically great copy on Epic until I chanced upon an unopened (!) copy. Back then, they left the jackets unwrapped and packed the LP in a sealed plastic inner sleeve with zip-open edge. When I saw this, it was like finding a unicorn. Though Szell's version still isn't my favorite (I like Horenstein, Stokowski and Kubelik as well or better), the sonics were so superior to Columbia pressings that I found myself positively reevaluating the performance...and this particular Epic remains a prize of my collection.

So keep searching, and good luck.

Dirk

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