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Spyro Gyra: Wrapped in a Dream          (1 of 1 found this review helpful)
  July 18, 2009

It's refreshing to find another "real" surround album, given that the great majority of engineers choose to deliver ambience-only surround channels (many of which are pretty much indistinguishable from the "surround" settings on our receivers). On my car system (where I have a center channel ... more
Cameron Carpenter: Revolutionary        (6 of 6 found this review helpful)
  January 11, 2009

If you don't like Virgil Fox and never liked theatre organ (I do occasionally and harbor fond memories of an overwhelming diaphone in an organ installed in an Armory in Cleveland, Ohio), then you won't like this SACD. Me, I'm delighted! All the hype about Cameron Carpenter being a maverick is ... more
Beethoven: Complete String Quintets - Quartetto d’archi di Venezia        (5 of 6 found this review helpful)
  October 10, 2008

I'm happy to have this "complete" edition, though in reality two of Beethoven's three string (viola)quintets are re-workings of previous works. According to the liner notes these re-workings amount to considerable improvement over the original works (the Septet for strings and winds and a Trio ... more
Phantômes, An Organ Spectacular - Harald Feller        (2 of 8 found this review helpful)
  November 12, 2007

The format of this disc is 5.0 (no subwoofer channel). Given that my main SACD player gives no indication of which channels are active (actually, none of them do; is there a surround sound meter on the market?) I wanted to verify this before posting a review here. A gentleman at Oehms Classics was ... more
Bouzignac: Motets - Saxon Vocal Ensemble        (5 of 5 found this review helpful)
  October 6, 2007

When I first read about Tacet's "Real Surround" technique, with separate parts of the chorus dedicated to individual loudspeakers, even I (a very liberal thinker with regard to deploying surround channels) was dubious. However, the results in this case are simply gorgeous. The "Real Surround" ... more

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