Mike, do you know if there's a policy as to WHICH digital transfer to use? In the case of both
Columbia (Sony) and RCA (BMG), there were many not-so-good attempts before good remasters were
obtained. For Sony, I'd put the ones that Dennis Rooney oversaw in the late 90's as their best. For
RCA, the CD layer of the SACDs done by Soundmirror are vastly superior to earlier attempts.
For their box set, Decca went back and re-did some material that had been previously remastered,
with good results. I think DGG did new transfers for some of the material in their budget-priced
boxes, for instance the Kubelik Mahler cycle seemed to have all been remastered in the late 90s as
opposed to some of the earlier remasters of some of the symphonies (I don't think all were
previously released prior to the box set). I believe everything was brought up to the era and
quality of the "DGG Originals" series, so circa late 90's.
-- Tom Fine
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From: "Gray, Mike" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 2:47 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] New SONY sets
> As a rule, no new transfers are made from analog originals save where no prior digital transfer
> has already been
> made.
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> Mike Gray
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