Post by steviev February 1, 2013 (2 of 2)
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hiredfox said:
Normally an excellent ensemble with some impressive recordings behind them. Hailing from the birthplace of the Immortal Beloved you'd expect that they might make a decent fist of his works? What niggles always at the back of my mind is the variable recording quality of MDG discs (in stereo) ranging from excellent to mediocre.
They seem to take a unique view of mch playback and therefore the way that they set up microphones so stereo quality may well reflect unsystematic mix-downs. From what I've heard and read they still use 48kHz sampling rate as well which may not have undue impact in mch playback but is quite evident in HQ stereo.
Back covers never mention recording format or even that mythical acronym DSD
It's an interesting program, exactly duplicating LSO Live's pairing in their LvB series. It's unusual to couple symphonies one and five, so I'm hoping it's the start of a series.
MDG discs are pretty variable in quality in 2+2+2 surround, too, but they're mostly excellent. Every recording I have of this orchestra from MDG is superior, though sometimes the performances have been a little sleepy (for example, their Shosty cycle with a different conductor).
MDG's back covers also always mention mythical support for 5.1, but it makes zero sense to feed what would be the right height speaker into the subwoofer, and even less sense to feed what would be the left height speaker into the center speaker, unless you wanted to double the number of violinists, I guess.
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