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Title: Klemperer's EMI Mahler set to be released on SACDs
Post by: John Kim on August 24, 2019, 01:34:16 AM

https://tower.jp/item/4947655/

Title: Re: Klemperer's EMI Mahler set to be released on SACDs
Post by: John Kim on August 24, 2019, 06:38:45 AM

The Japanese notes says these SACDs are based on a new remastering done on the original UK tapes.

Title: Re: Klemperer's EMI Mahler set to be released on SACDs
Post by: waderice on August 24, 2019, 12:54:40 PM

$133.22 in U.S. dollars for the Japanese SACD versions of these same recordings as against what I paid about $24.50 for the standard CD version by Warner Classics?  No thanks!  Besides, the remasterings of the Warner Classics from 2011-12 sound perfectly fine for me!

Wade

Title: Re: Klemperer's EMI Mahler set to be released on SACDs
Post by: John Kim on August 25, 2019, 06:05:57 PM

I have a slightly different opinion on the Warner release. Yes, the transfers sound terrific but to my ears they are different form what I recall from my old EMI LPs; for one thing the bass is enhanced unrealistically while the mid range is weak.