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Bach: Keyboard Concertos 2 - Hewitt/ACO        (4 of 4 found this review helpful)
  February 11, 2007

I cannot understand anyone claiming these are bland performances with no soul... I've been listening to these works for almost four decades, and this is hands down the best set I've heard. They're lively without being rushed, and they DANCE, in a way that no other performance, whatever its merits ... more

 
 
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SACD Promotion Ideas
March 19, 2007
There are better things to do with my time, such as doing work that needs to be done, or sitting and listening to music. Besides, I don't know any young'uns that are into serious music. ... more
SACD Promotion Ideas
March 19, 2007
The longer reverb time of an auditorium, combined with the inferior quality of most theater speakers, would tend to hide problems with the sound. Knowing how to listen, and what to listen for, are largely learned skills that young people lack. One can have no response above 10kHz, yet be a better judge of reproduction than someone 30 or 40 years ... more
SACD Promotion Ideas
March 19, 2007
What's even worse is the claim -- from both record companies and reviewers -- that compressed formats are equal in sound quality to RBCD. This seems to be based on the reasoning that "if it's digital, it must be perfect", regardless of the bit rate. A good example of the error of this thinking is Dolby Digital (for films). It has a persistently ... more
SACD Promotion Ideas
March 18, 2007
I agree that we've gotten a bit off-topic, but it wasn't wholly my fault. My original point was that, in order to promote a new product or service, you need to give the potential customer something they don't currently have -- perhaps even something they don't yet know they want. (Instant photography is an excellent example.) In the case of SACDs ... more
SACD Promotion Ideas
March 14, 2007
raffells' writing verges on the incoherent -- and sometimes crosses over -- what does "none Decca non tree type recordings are less than the best?" mean? If you're familiar with recording history, you know that EMI adopted SQ encoding for single-inventory quadraphonic LPs. I don't know the total number of surround recordings they made, but it must ... more