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Guys,

You really misunderstood this CD. This is just a compilation of GOOD MUSIC well performed and interpreted and it has nothing to do with audio. For instance now of my compilations CDs I ever played on my playback. Those CDs are good enough for cars or wherever….

You were under impression that if I we sometimes talk about audio quality within this site then it meant that the CD that I sent would be some kind of next “to due for” sonic blockbuster. I told before and I am saying again that I do not know any good ways to record CD and therefore all how I use CDR is juts to record MUSIC and do not pay any attention to the sonic results I would get. Some people try to convince me that some “better” method and better programs (like EAC for instance) do better job I sincerely feel that it all crap.

Anyhow: the CD that you go was made on Alexis Masterlink (incredibly horrible recorder) and the copies were burned on my development machine with a stock consumer CD-writer at 16X speed. I also used the first CDs that I found in my lab. Really, there is not need to think of to discuss any aspects of quality on this CD, as it never meant to deliver it. I am kind of surprised to hear you comment how do or bad transfer was.

The Content of the sent DISC:


The Romy the Cat’s selected fragments
of the best performances (Disc #6)

1. First Act finale of Mozart’s “Cosi Fan Tutte”
(Bohm/Philharmonia with Kraus, Berry, Schwarzkopf, Ludwig, Taddei, 1963)
2. Fragment of Saint-Saens Symphony #3, first movement
(Myung-Whun Chung/ Orchestra of Bastille, 1993)
3. Fragment of Tchaikovsky String Quartet #2, first movement
(“Belcanto Strings”, 1993)
4. Fragment of Tchaikovsky Symphony #5, first movement
(Georgiev/Weiner Philharmoniker, 1998) 
5. A cadenza from first movement of Rachmaninoff’s Third concerto, the alternative version 
(Volodos, 1999)
6. Fragment from first movement of Mahler’s Second
(Ozawa/Saito Kinen Orchestra, 2000)
7. Fragment of Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto, first movement
(Abbado/Berlin Philharmoniker with Martha Argerich)
8. Fragment of Tchaikovsky Symphony #5, second movement, Japanese re-mastering
(Mravinsky/Leningrad 1961, Japanese re-mastering)
9. Pavel Chesnokov (1877-1944) Psalm #120
(Russian Patriarchate Chorus, 1998)
10. Fragment of broadcast of Shostakovich V Symphony, IV movement
(Kurt Masur /Chicago, 1987-88)
11. A fragment from Kalman’s “Die Csardasfustin”
(Frank Fox/Berlin Symphony with Rudolph Schock and Barabas, 1962)
12. Fragment of Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, first movement
(Walter Goehr/London with Tossy Spivakovsky, 1960)
13. Opening of Emmerich Kalman’s “Die Csardasfustin”
(Wilhelm Schuchter/Orchesterbegleitung with Sari Barabas, 1954)
14. Complete First movement of Kodaly’s Sonata for unaccompanied cello Op.8
(Janos Starker, Version 1956)
15. Opining of Rachmaninoff’s “Rhapsody on the Thyme of Paganini”
(Horenstein/Royal Philharmonic with Erld Wild)
16. Sonata in C sharp minor by Antonio Soler
(1729-1783) played by Rafael Puyana

*  The so-called Audio Quality isn’t necessary fine everywhere on this disc; the compilation is made paying attention strictly at the musical-performing values.
** The cuts 13-16 are my own transfer from analog using the  "Aulasaulalaraula" (two stages 7788-7721, MC->64dB, air-caps) phonocorrector
*** The cuts meant to be faded in and out but it turned out to be imposable due to the DSP application completely ruined sound, that is have already been ruined by the CD copping.
**** The “quality” of the “CD transfers” is also very- very bad. I really do not know how to do the CDRs to sound adequate. The Masterlink on which I graded the cuts and did A/D was unspeakable garbage and the copes sound WAY worst then the originals … The sound quality generally within this disk has a HUGE dynamic compression and color-wise is superbly grayish. So, you get what you get.

So, I hope you would enjoy THE music.
Romy the Cat

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