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|   Awesome find in Classical guitar music,,,on Mercury.. | jsujo1
Aug 10, 2002 6:17 PM | | For only about 11 dollars, I bought at Borders a recording
by Mercury Living Presence made in 1962.
Its The Romeros, the royal family of spanish guitar. I am definitely convinced after listening to the Overtur of 1812 by the same folks, that these guys knew what they were doing. The recording director was the same person: Wilma Cozert.
The music is as natural as it gets,,,basically, very analog sounding,,,I just believe that is doesnt get any better than this...I may investigate all CD's from these tapes... |
| re: Awesome find in Classical guitar music,,,on Mercury.. | mawako
Aug 10, 2002 10:17 PM | | If you can find a-n-y-t-h-i-n-g in good shape on the old Command label, it will be worth the money, regardless of the genre.
Audio Fidelity was awesome in the old days too.
Cheers |
| re: Awesome find in Classical guitar music,,,on Mercury.. | jsujo1
Aug 11, 2002 6:47 AM | | I dont have a home stereo anymore,,,I sold it because i am never home. I put some of the money into a close fascmile to it in my car...Thats why i am only trying to find the CD's. I just found out that they transferred 100 titles,,,all remixed by Wilma Cozart.
Interesting link if you wanna read some info on how these recordings where done:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~rabruil/mercury.html |
| re: Awesome find in Classical guitar music,,,on Mercury.. | mawako
Aug 11, 2002 6:31 PM | | Sorry to hear you sold your system. Beware, though, some of the transfers are real garbage....no where near the original analogs. Good luck.
Cheers...Mawako |
| re: Awesome find in Classical guitar music,,,on Mercury.. | jsujo1
Aug 11, 2002 6:51 PM | | No biggie with the home system. My car is sounding pretty good,,heck,,I have more DAC chips per channle now than at home. I have a real good system that corrects for phaze shifts, Time correction due to speakers distances and reflections from wondows, and gain adjustements. It has 2 Burr-Brown chips per channel and 2 for the subwoofers. all connected thru fiber optic. The drivers are from Vifa, Peerless and Morel,, and the amps are McIntosh and Planet Audio with a tube preamp in it.
I will look into which reissues arent up to snuff...thanks! |
| re: Awesome find in Classical guitar music,,,on Mercury.. | mawako
Aug 12, 2002 9:46 AM | | Sounds like a hellava system. I'm not much for car stereo myself, although I fully understand. Like to kick back and listen without concentrating on anything else. BTW, hope you have good car insurance.
Drive on!!
Mawako |
| by the way.... | mawako
Aug 12, 2002 9:51 AM | | if you're in the mood for something different, try Willie Nelson's Stardust album, especially the title cut. No sonic explosions, but the miking is spectacular, IMHO.
Mawako |
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