Richard Pennycuick notes:

>Coincidentally, I read a review by Jerry Dubins in Fanfare of a Brahms
>chamber music DVD-A on MDG.  He was hugely enthusiastic about the new
>technology, the realism of the sound and so on.

Call me a Luddite, but I really have to wonder about the incremental
value of this new technology compared to its incremental cost.  My
reference for the "sound" of classical music is live performance in
Boston's Symphony Hall.  My subscription seats are in the first row of
the first balcony center section, though I have had seats on the floor
in the hall's "sweet spot".  A well engineered old fashioned CD played
on a decent home system is close enough to that experience that any
difference new technology is likely to bring is about as large as the
difference in the sound between different orchestras or different halls.
I.e., to my ears it's irrelevant, and it's certainly not worth the cost
of replacing my collection of nearly 5000 CDs.  I did it once for LPs,
because it was worth it, but I have no intention of doing it again.  I'll
buy hybrid SACDs if I have to, but the day the CD becomes "obsolete" is
probably the day I stop buying recordings.

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