Mats Norrman wrote:

>You are right, sound stinks.  I am a little disappointed with this as
>NAXOS has succeded better with other remasterings I had heard before, like
>Toscaninis Beethoven 8 for example.

I'm prepared to believe that Naxos have done a good job with what they had
to work with.  The problem is that what they had to work with was poor and
there was nothing they could do about that.  There is an "improvement" in
the sound as the performance wears on.

Tony Duggan,  England.
My (developing) Mahler recordings survey is at:
http://www.musicweb.force9.co.uk/music/Mahler/index.html