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Suppe and Auber Overtures.(sound recordings)

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Suppe and Auber Overtures. Paul Paray, Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Mercury SACD 470 638-2.

CD, DVD, DVD-Audio, HD-DVD, Blu-ray, SACD. If you're like me, you probably keep up with most new technology but you still have a hard time deciding what to buy. Well, somebody in the music business seems to think that SACD has a good chance of success because quite a few major record companies are releasing their recordings in this format. Of course, they're hedging their bets by releasing their recordings on discs that contain two layers, both SACD multichannel and conventional two-channel stereo versions on the same disc, with a regular CD player handling the two-channel layer.

So it is with Mercury, who recently launched a new series of Mercury Living Presence recordings in three-channel stereo. Seems that is the way they were originally recorded before being mixed down to two channels. So, now we have the opportunity to hear them the way they were initially made. That is, if you have a Super Audio Compact Disc player and a multichannel sound system. If you don't, then you listen to the two-track recording as I did.

The packaging says that "in addition to the direct-to-DSD (Direct Stream Digital) 3-channel stereo, the disc includes a new DSD stereo, plus the original CD transfer." Despite the clumsy wording, I assume this means that the two-channel recording is the same one supervised by Wilma Cozart Fine for remastering in the early nineties on ...

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