01-04-2015 Post does not mapped to Knowledge Tree Paul S San Diego, California, USA Posts 2,656 Joined on 10-12-2006 Post #: 1 Post ID: 21471 Reply to: 21471 So, What's the Story on Pristine Audio? fiogf49gjkf0d OK, Romy, what about Pristine Audio? Their site looks like the usual "artificial modesty" advertising, the engineer with the "musical background" and all the fawning "support"... Anyway, I sure like my Music and Arts Beethoven 9 CD (Furtwangler, 1943), and I am always wishing that someone - anyone - would do "the best possible job" of re-formatting the great old semi-lost recordings. The Brahms Requiem I recently mentioned on the Musical Discussions post was - unfortunately for me - cut straight to either wax or lacquer (hard to be sure from accounts I have read), rather than being taped (magnetophon), so this would be a great example of "recovery/archiving" IF someone actually pulled it off. Unfortunately, the Naxos CD seems to read "too true" to the semi-messed-up original. If there is already a thread about this, I missed it; but, if so, please transfer this post, apropos. Best regards, Paul S

01-04-2015 Post does not mapped to Knowledge Tree Romy the Cat Boston, MA Posts 10,155 Joined on 05-28-2004 Post #: 2 Post ID: 21472 Reply to: 21471 No Pristine crap at this site. fiogf49gjkf0d Music and Arts mastering has nothing to do with Pristine Audio and quite many Music and Arts premastering are very good. Pristine Audio is a totally different cap of tea. I do not want to create publicity by criticizing the Pristine Audio’s mastering at my site. Anybody who have brain and hear will be able to hear themselves what kind barbaric garbage they do with sound. The last CDs that I risked to buy from Pristine I trashed out of car window while I was driving from post office where I received the CD. And it was Bruckner!!! "I wish I could score everything for horns." - Richard Wagner. "Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." - Friedrich Nietzsche