I have not heard Pristine's hard drive, but I've downloaded all of their
transfers of Schnabel's Beethoven. In all, I have previously heard EMI COLH,
EMI RLS, Seraphim LPs and EMI, Pearl and Historical Piano Collection (Dante,
which I own) CDs. Up to now, it was (somewhat unexpectedly) the Dante CDs
that combined clarity and musicality the best, but Pristine's transfers wipe
the floor with them. They have gotten rid of all the wow and flutter,
miraculously gotten rid of 99% of the surface noise, yet left the musical
sound bright, clear and unimpaired. I find them truly amazing, sounding more
like recordings (and GOOD ones at that) from the late 1950s. In a way, I
don't care how Andrew Rose did it (in another way, I care very much), but
the results are superlative.
-Larry
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Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 5:01 PM
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Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Pristine hard drive
Hi Steve,
Please give us your impressions of the Rose transfers of Schnabel's
Beethoven, most of which were produced using some new German software that
is supposed to remove wow and flutter. The .mp3 sample I heard sounded
incredibly solid.
L. H. Kevil
Univ. of Missouri
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 9:44 PM, Steven Smolian <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I'm just installing my Pristine Audio music library on a hard drive. So
> far, sounds good. I'll try it at full volume after sleep time- not all
> apartment dwellers share my musical tastes.
>
> Are there any others on these lists who have Andrew Rose's hard drive
> library? Any who will be at ARSC?
>
> Steve Smolian
>
>
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