Telarc 1812 torrent

Following proper speaker layouts for multichannel music will yield better results than some HT suggested positions. I have not listened to it in a long while because I do not consider it to be one of my better-sounding classical hirez discs.

I need to give it a re-listen as certain components in my system have changed, my sub's been repositioned, etc.. It sounds like you definitely need one of the hirez recordings of the I'm just not certain if this is the best one to have or not. The entire disk is delibertly recorded at a very low volume which makes the unwary listener turn up the volume to hear the disk normally.

When the digital cannons go off the disk blasts up to full volume. There is a very good chance that your speakers will be damaged. Be forewarned, even the best of speakers can be damaged with this disk. If you simply must have the digital cannons, first go to the end of the disk where the cannons go off and set your volume accordingly.

We were able to hire the same cannoneers as for the recording, but this time recorded them in a larger "battlefield setting. The musical performances on the disc are tepid and not particularly well recorded. Surely there are better options! Get a time machine and listen to it live. When do we depart? My bags are always packed. That would be cool. However, I do remember going with my grandparents once as a kid out to the Coast Guard academy in New London, Connecticut, and the academy orchestra played this piece, and they used Howitzers for the cannons!

Talk about a physical and emotional trip on classical music! That was one performance I will never forget! Also, in college once, I went to a performance of this, and they had set up some small explosive devices near the back of the auditorium, turned off the fire alarm in the building, and let it rip! Man that was fun! There was a light gray smoke pouring out of the place before it was all over!

My date loved it! Bevan Audioholic. Coming back to this Folks, Ok then, I have been thinking about this for a long time. Nevertheless, this record is a must for its with the impressive cannon fire. The liner notes indicate they even managed to destroy some windows during the firing of the largest charge! Buy this, but be careful: Don't destroy your system. This may seem absurdly low to those of us accustomed to thinking in terms of dB fortissimos, but it is roughly 15dB more dynamic range than is on the statistical average of symphonic LPs, and 5dB more than on any audiophile disc we have encountered!

When we consider that a 10dB change sounds to our ears like a halving or doubling of volume, it is no wonder that this latest from Telarc sounds like such a blockbuster. Add to that the fact that the loudest parts are cut at extraordinarily high level higher than on most 78rpm discs for drastically reduced by almost 10dB surface noise, and it.

The fact that it will reproduce throughout without breakup by some phono systems, anyway is in its turn a tribute to the advances in cartridge design in the past few years. Now, if someone could just develop a resonance-free phono system, and the audiophile community could see fit to adopt it as a standard, it might make digital audio look a little less attractive to perfectionists. If your power amp is capable of ripping your woofers apart, the cannonshots will give it the opportunity to do so.

Telarc's warning in the booklet and on the album cover should be heeded. Despite the in-house presence of two Wpc power amplifiers, I have yet to hear these appalling thuds reproduced at higher than modest levels without obvious evidence of something overloading.

And if anyone can assemble a system that will reproduce those sounds cleanly, and without attenuating their low end, I would not at all be surprised to hear about broken windows. The recording is typical Telarc, with all the positive and slightly negative things implied thereby.

As usual there is that tendency towards steeliness when the whole violin section digs in, but considering the bulk of material released on CD to date, this is one of the best orchestral CDs you can buy.

As with the analog version, this is still an almost ridiculous challenge to a reproducing system-a challenge which, if met, would prove nothing of musical worth about the system's fidelity. The Cossack Dance , on the other hand, is a bore. Gordon Holt Footnote 1: Listening to the thuds and clangor of this nth rendition of the , it occurred to me that audiophiles need some new musical works to show off their woofers and tweeters. How about someone commissioning the Choo-Choo Symphony , featuring a Mikado steam locomotive.

Or the Thunder Overture: In Memoriam for the recording engineer who stood on a high hill holding a microphone aloft. Better still, a recordist could be paid a year-round salary to camp right on the San Andreas fault, ready at the drop of a tremor to punch the Record button for The Earthquake , a work of truly shattering impact.

Any other suggestions, People? After all, I had a system that was At a pretty loud level, the output gave it up and the thermal protection kicked in. In my defense, I was much younger and was A HiRes version would be interesting to hear, but alas I suspect it will never happen. Yes, I know it's a synth, but at a loud level, you can dust the furniture in your listening room. Search form Search. Recording of the Month.

Recording of October The Telarc Overture. Review from John Philips at Musicweb Here is a bargain and a half! This is another Telarc disc, re-issuing two previously available CDs. The new disc is released in SACD format. The music is recorded in spectacular sound and superbly performed. Telarc is well known for audio excellence, and rarely, if ever, have I seen a negative review of one of their products in this respect.

And so it is here with a recording that cannot be faulted. As far as performances go, do not be put off by the name Leonard Slatkin. He made a number of superlative recordings with the St. Listening to this disc, one would not immediately pick it as being by American performers, there being little gloss to the playing with a superior acoustic.