Universal Music To (Finally) Releases Mercury Living Presence SACDs (1 Viewer)

[Seth--L]

From: http://boards.iclassics.com/cgi/dcfo...umID22&omm=127




The 3-channel track is big news. I was expecting Universal to give us a gimmicky 5.1 remix. Also, Universal finally listened to the consumers and picked recordings that they want.

 

[Michael St. Clair]

Very cool news. I suspect they'll crossover the 3-channel into a 3.1 mix so that folks without proper bass management can get low bass.

 

[Lee Scoggins]

Thanks Seth. This is superb news for classical hirez.

I have a bunch of these discs on redbook. I highly recommend the Byron Janis recordings and the Balalaika.

Most excitingly, these new SACD discs will also include a 3-channel transfer of the original 3-track recordings, as well as a new DSD stereo mix. This will be the first opportunity for Mercury Living Presence enthusiasts to hear their favourite recordings in the original 3-track format.

It's funny, I speculated in April with Michael Hobson at Classical Records that trifield recordings would be perfect for surround since you would be listening to the three original mic tracks with no special mixing needed. You could add room tone (ambience) to the surround speakers as well.

In any event, I bet these will sound wonderful.

 

[Dennis Nicholls]

And I'm glad that the Starker set of the Bach is in the first cycle. I'll certainly get that along with the Dorati Firebird and the Janis Rachmaninov.

Man this is big news but this thread got buried quickly.....

 

[Lee Scoggins]

It got buried fast after I posted it on Steve Hoffman as well.

Classical fans know there is gold in that catalog though!