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The recordings span many years, proving its not always the newest releases, but the best engineered which stand out. Though considered a tyrant at the podium to many a musician, reiner groomed the chicago symphony into arguably the finest in the land. Extended resolution compact disc xrcd is a mastering and manufacture process patented by jvc victor company of japan, ltd for producing red book compact discs. The xrcd process starts by converting the analog signal most xrcds are reissues from original analog tapes to digital with jvcs custom 24bit analogtodigital converter. I think it mostly has to do with the care taken in the mastering process. The reiner sound hdtracks the worlds greatestsounding.
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They retain the formats position of being in almost every case the highest fidelity digital version of the original recording be it originally analog or digital in nature while still using the standard 44. Jun 04, 2015 watching and listening to the live recording of the eagles on dvd on a 5. I have three, and i bought them for specific recordings whose cd incarnations were unavailable or otherwise deficient in sound. For collectors or music amateurs, the reiner sound is a good place to start if you want to sample the artistic scope of reinercso in their prime. Audiophile reference recordings australias only audiophile music store specialising in audiophile quality recordings.
Jvc attributes this to the higher cost of quality mastering and manufacturing. All of the instrumentation is vibrant with supple layers. The clapping and cheering even comes out clearer and cleaner, the synchronisation of the camera angles and microphone positioning is an absolute joy to experience as it works all 5. Tone2 torrent source for free download quality software. The overall sound quality on this xrcd is dynamic, quite a bit better than a standard cd. The few jvc xrcd titles i have are all absolutely excellent. The second movement is just ravishing in the beauty of the chicagos playing and reiner s romantic approach. Jvcs extended resolution compact discxrcd tas 203 the. Supposedly, 48 of these 60 have never been previously issued in digital format. Watching and listening to the live recording of the eagles on dvd on a 5. Of course when jvc start with master tapes from sheffield labs to begin with as are several of my xrcds i guess that says it all. These type of sounds mostly used in edm, hiphop, trap, rnb, future bass,house, chillout, pop and are all over the radio nowadays, but. Fritz reiner chicago symphony the reiner sound discogs. Nov 26, 2011 recorded with canon g12 from my humble hifi system in listening room, to test sound quality, not for any other purpose of business.
I have decided that putting together a list of lps consisting mainly of rare, unknown artists and labels almost impossible to find, would be a useless exercise. Reference quality recordings are painstakingly selected and brought to you audiophiles and music lovers to enjoy. Just a caveat, i dont have a lot of xrcds so my experience is limited. It includes not only my own present collection, but all the new audiophile records i sold as a dealer in the 1980s and 1990s, the huge amount of mainly used records i purchased in the last 25 years and the enormous amount of records that have become available for me to audition in the last 20 years, when i began selling used. As mentioned the tony bennettbill evans xrcd is superb. The only qualification for this list is the sonic superiority of the lp, and not the quality of the music andor the performance in addition, the records are almost all from wellknown labels. Jvc xrcds fritz reiner and chicago symphony and reference. Ims synthesis provides independent control over pitch, timing and timbre. Fritz reiner and the chicago symphony orchestra convey the listener on a magic carpet of spectacular sound to mythic arabia, guided by one of russias greatest orchestral masters.
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