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Hi.Thanks John (my elder son) for his treasured X-mas/new-year gift -
a DVD-audio double album: "Beethoven Symphony 9", a French HODIE label featuring a sorta no-name Budapest Europa Philharmonia conducted by a kinda no-name Maximianno Cobra.I am a sorta-kinda crazy collector of Beethoven's works. His last "Choral Symphony", one of my most favourites, being so complex & so demanding, IMO, must be a nightmare to many symphomy music directors worldwide. I've collected quite a few, LPs & CDs, but I don't think I am getting there yet.
So my search carries on until I ran into the Hodie website last month & my eyebrow raised when I read their DVD-audio online store catalogue - stereo 192KHz 24-bit recordings. So the rest is history.
From the bonus DVD-video disc on the whole performance (only 44.1KHz 16-bit sound tracks), I can see for the first time, a symphony conductor conducting barehanded withOUT a stick. Yet, I am so surprised to see how 'sweatless' this young conductor Cobra (what a name for a musician !!) handled this Beethoven's masterpiece.
With John sitting beside me listening to the DVD-audio music version
(192KHz 16-bit stereo sound tracks) on my Pioneer DVD-audio player, it must be a most musically enjoyable New Year afternoon I have ever had.Never I have encountered so close-to-real & so engaged a hundred-plus people classical performance on a disc. John listened with his eyes closed most time, & his comment was: "It sounded pretty real".
I concurred 100% given his 26-year classical piano playing experience.As usual, I hooked up my DVD-audio player& my CD player sorta direct to the tube power amp via the passive line control of my phono+linestage.
Less active gadgets, less actively generated distortion & better is the sound.
When many complains their CDs sound not that good, try passive like me as digital craps intermoodulated with the music would get worse with any inadequately designed active line devices.
Not forgetting: Good music listening for 2007 to all.
c-J
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- What About Blue Ray? - thetubeguy1954 10:33:26 01/04/07 (2)
- If the Blu-ray bigboys wanted to invest .... - cheap-Jack 07:24:21 01/05/07 (0)
- Blue Ray Schmu Ray. You'll still have to grind the glare outta those suckas. Ink. Demagnify. Ahhhh (nt) - AJinFLA 16:07:24 01/04/07 (0)
- Re: Listening is believing. - john curl 16:29:03 01/03/07 (2)
- Wait until you try out DVD-audio. - cheap-Jack 08:59:42 01/04/07 (0)
- )and you have to forgive it for the ticks and pops, etc.. - hitsware 19:43:58 01/03/07 (0)
- Try the grinding/ink ritual from below. Omigod improvement on DVD's as well. Then demagnetize for 2xOmigod - AJinFLA 15:00:50 01/03/07 (13)
- Save your "Omigod" "bullshit" ! - cheap-Jack 08:56:08 01/04/07 (12)
- CD demagnetizer is a joke & a commercial scam!? Omigod! CJ is calling CJ a liar? Did you have any Tridents in the room? - AJinFLA 16:00:41 01/04/07 (11)
- Listen with your own ears before you quote someone else, kid. (nt) - cheap-Jack 07:28:16 01/05/07 (10)
- It did seem like a strange thing to say. - jneutron 10:01:34 01/08/07 (8)
- If you knew how a CD works, you'd agree to my "opinion". - cheap-Jack 11:59:41 01/08/07 (7)
- I didn't disagree. - jneutron 12:21:37 01/08/07 (6)
- Wrong, don't forget aluminum is a paramagnet, not non-magnetic. - cheap-Jack 12:57:31 01/08/07 (5)
- I kinda knew that about aluminum...use it a lot in magnets.. - jneutron 13:10:40 01/08/07 (4)
- Yes, it could be a thermal shock effect. - cheap-Jack 13:22:45 01/08/07 (3)
- Re: Yes, it could be a thermal shock effect. - jneutron 13:29:52 01/08/07 (2)
- But the laser sensor reads only 1 or O. - cheap-Jack 13:42:54 01/08/07 (1)
- Actually, it determines bit value by the reflection coefficient. - jneutron 13:51:39 01/08/07 (0)
- So totally disregard what Kuller, Norm and Johnsenwan have heard? - AJinFLA 08:22:16 01/06/07 (0)
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