Zack Winestine wrote:

>...  I have been living for years with the early-sixties stereo
>performances of the Budapest quartet, and for whatever reason have
>never been able to find my way into this music.
>
>... Should I try the earlier, classic Budapest performances?

I've never heard the later, stereo versions, but from what I've heard of
them, they are abysmal and it does neither the Budapest, nor their earlier
mono performances any service to judge them by those later recordings.

Walter Meyer