Cape11;614876 Wrote: > I agree with TerryS on this (noting PL's point about dither). I don't > think the evidence for the roughness of 16 bit CD sound is a subtle > audio point. Listen to any recording of a string quartet when they play > a quiet passage and the roughness of the sound is perfectly obvious. On > some recordings, where they have recorded at a rather lower level than > usual, the sound can be quite dreadful. A 'good' example of this is the > Caliope recordings of the Beethoven Quartets played by the Talisch. The > LPs sound fine - good, warm string tone; the CDs are so bad that you > might have difficulty identifying the source as a string quartet. So > I'm all for 24 bit delivered to the end user. > > I have the Calliope "Integrale des Quatuors" by the Talich Qt but have not listened to it recently. I have not in the past noticed any issue with the sound quality (other than noting that it is not a great recording to start off with). Can you point me to where you find the sound so rough (3rd movement of the 135?). I note that the Gramophone reviewer commented on the first CD issue of this set (March 1987)http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/March%201987/69/815793/BEETHOVEN.+STRING+QUARTETS.+Talich++Quartet+(Petr+Messiereur,+Jan+Kvapil,+vns+Jan#header-logo
"The recordings which, like those of the Vêgh, seemed a bit bottom heavy, are much less aggressive than the DG for Melos and want the bloom and richness of the EMI set. All the same, the sound is more firmly defined and better-focused than on LP and eminently natural. The sound does not call attention to itself, the instruments are well placed and the timbre truthful: in fact, one quickly forgets about it and loses one's self in the music." -- adamdea ------------------------------------------------------------------------ adamdea's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37603 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85879
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