Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site rabbit.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!alice!rabbit!dsj From: dsj@rabbit.UUCP (David S. Johnson @ ) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: CD recommendations Message-ID: <3195@rabbit.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Sep-84 01:53:43 EDT Article-I.D.: rabbit.3195 Posted: Fri Sep 28 01:53:43 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Sep-84 06:43:49 EDT Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 33 In response to Greg Paley's call for CD recommendations, here are a few: Copland (Fanfare, Rodeo, etc.) - Telarc Orff (Carmina Burana) - Telarc The Unknown Kurt Weill - Nonesuch Peter Gabriel "Security" The selection from the Orff (on the Telarc sampler) was what made me choose the REVOX player over the YAMAHA. I could definitely hear more room ambience with the former, and the latter sounded a little harsh during loud passages (although this last may have been the fault of the speakers I was listening through, which, although 6 feet tall and visually impressive, were far too bright). All these discs have audible "hall noise" (although Gabriel's is mostly electronically generated), good stereo imaging, and as much depth as I ever get out of my system (only two or three feet behind the speakers, not the 10 or 12 feet Phil R. claims for his system). None is "harsh" to my ears. I have to admit, however, that one of my major CD-related pleasures out of the last two comes from the lack of surface noise, which to me has real musical benefits. Without the distraction of that noise, I can almost imagine that Teresa Stratas is singing the Weill in my living room, and the soft parts of the Gabriel record come through in all their subtlety. (This record has a surprisingly wide dynamic range for rock, and spends a lot of time at both ends, the loud end being mostly percussive, with great transients. I have the LP, and although it almost equals the CD in transient response, the soft parts are buried in the surface roar.) David S. Johnson, AT&T Bell Laboratories