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Re: [ARSCLIST] Living Stereo? Don't make me laugh
Mono has always been a better (more durable, less distortion, louder
cutting) format for vinyl. Back to mono!
David Lennick wrote:
Just compared three copies of the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto with Emil
Gilels and Fritz Reiner conducting: original mono LP (LM 1969),
"Living Stereo" CD, and 1970s English pressing on "Camden Classics"
CCV 5016 from Victrola master (VICS 1039). Interesting results. The CD
is muddy, distant, over-reverbed and very unpleasant. The Camden
Classics/Victrola is running slow, horribly distorted and full of
dropouts. The original mono LP sounds .. bloody fabulous!
dl