CHANGSTAR: Audiophile Headphone Reviews and Early 90s Style BBS
Lobby => Music and Recordings => Topic started by: LFF on December 01, 2011, 06:53:26 AM
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Capitol debuted what they called "Full Dimensional Sound" with the birth of the long play record back in 1949. Full Dimensional Sound was originally recorded in mono, which for that era and technology, produced amazing results. Soon thereafter, Full Dimensional Sound was upgraded to Stereo Full Dimensional Sound. The whole concept of Full Dimensional Sound, be it mono or stereo, was to convey the depth and richness of the concert hall with all the details and intimacy of the having a prime seat within that concert hall. Later on, the moniker was added to most stereo titles to alert all potential customers of the wonders of stereo sound.
Most of the original Full Dimensional Sound recordings were done in the minimalist fashion of hanging a few (sometimes only one or two) microphones with the occasional supporting spot microphones for added clarity during recording. This is very similar to what RCA and Mercury were also doing at the time. All of these recordings are considered by many to encompass what has now become known as "The Golden Era" of High Fidelity recording and reproduction.
Unfortunately, many of these Full Dimensional Sound recordings have been forgotten while others, like the Living Stereo recordings, have grown to celebrity status among many collectors and audiophiles. Fortunately for those with a keen eye, there are a few Full Dimensional Sound recordings which were transferred and mastered extremely well to a digital format.
If you are a fan of the RCA Living Stereo or Mercury Living Presence recordings, do yourself a favor and track down the following Capitol Full Dimensional recordings released by EMI:
Orchestral Masterworks (CDM 65204)
Portraits In Sound (CDM 65205)
Shostakovich Symphony No. 11 (CDM 65206)
Carmina Burana & Firebird Suite (CDM 65207)
Great Works of Richard Wagner (CDM 65208)
Just a heads up for fans to classical high fidelity recordings! ;)
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Carmina Burana & Firebird Suite (CDM 65207)
Haha, Luis, I did a search for this to find out the performers (Stokowski) and second hit on Google is this Changstar thread.
Actually I was looking for binaural postings you may have made on this forum and instead came on this thread.
I know someone from a different music forum who is a retired recording engineer who said that the best way (in his opinion) to recreate a realistic sound is a binaural recording paired with good headphones, on another occasion he said to record (without equalization, compression, etc) in either Blumlein stereo or ORTF method (similar to Waterlily).
I'm really interested in finding binaural recordings of classical orchestral music. Admittedly my only recent experience with binaural was that recording you made with the other pirates about cheap headphones, but it was ridiculously realistic in terms of imaging, you felt you were in the room, with voices left, right, front, behind, etc.
DO you know of any binaural recordings of classical music (preferably orchestral)?