Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, Op. 49 - TELARC Edition in HD - FOR AUDIOPHILES - WARNING! Live Cannons

Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, Op, 49. TELARC EDITION - Erich Kunzel conducting the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. WARNING! - Digitally recorded LIVE cannons, recorded with the Virginia 5th Regiment. This video has been done in HD and offers 720p for the best I can offer you in audio on a computer.

HOWEVER, GET READY TO BE AMAZED At the SUPERIOR audio quality that is present in this video. I hope all who requested it will enjoy what I have accomplished.

This video was made using MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 17 HD software. It is my first attempt at using this software, so please forgive the quirks and mistakes in the video pictures.

When I worked in the top end audio field, this TELARC Edition was not yet out on CD, so the challenge was to get the turntable ensemble working to perfection. My choice of turntable was the belt driven, reference Linn Sondek LP 12 (which I still own) with a Koetsu arm, tipped with a Kiseki Blue, Silver Spot Low Output Moving Coil Cartridge. This was one of two arm/cartridge combinations, that I knew of, that sailed over those cannons without playing hop-scotch. The other was the Linn Ittok LVII mk2 /Asack combination, which I was also fortunate enough to own in black. Today, on CD, these cannons are ten time more devastating.

WARNING - PLEASE find out on a lower volume, how your sound system will respond to the two cannon salvos. The first salvo consists of five LOUD shots. The second salvo a couple of minutes later, consists of 11 (Eleven) LOUD booms. Serious damage can occur to your speakers if your sound is not ultra clean. I would advise AGAINST using a Graphic Equalizer with this CD. Graphic Equalizers only tend to muddy and distort sound in order to give those that use them, the floppy, boomy and mucky, muddy sound they seem to want. Graphic Equilizers are also responsible, to a large degree, to the phenomenon within the Audio field known as Listener's Fatigue.

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Telarc International made recording history in 1978 when they used digital audio technology to record the 1812 Overture. With its live cannons and phenomenal dynamic range, it quickly became a favorite demo disc in many audio stores, and the ultimate test for my new CD player and system.
The advent of multi-channel discrete surround sound and high-definition audio recording systems such as 24/96 PCM and the DSD system, with its frequency response extending beyond 100 kHz and the availability of Super Audio CD and DVD-Audio, were enough to coax Telarc to create a new recording of the 1812. The new recording is even more taxing on your sound system than the original.

Deciding to release the recording on the latest DSD recording equipment, the music, Civil War-era cannons, and the church bells were captured in different venues.

The recording is mixed to include optional height information using the LFE channel. Telarc's height information is used to drive a pair of elevated side, preferably dipole, speakers. The height information does add to the overall effect, particularly with the cannons. Even without the height effects, this is a great demo disc, one I demo frequently for myself when my wife is out of the house - the pictures are straightened before she returns!

The review above, was taken from Amazon.com and was written by David C. Canfield. I took his review because I could not have said it better myself.

Please go to this link to see more reviews on the 1812 Overture.
http://www.amazon.com/Tchaikovsky-Overture-Kunzel-Cincinnati-Multichannel/dp/...

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Music

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• Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture
• TELARC
• High Definition
• Audiophile version
• HD
• Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
• conductor Erich Kunzel
• Classical music
• Russian 1812 war
• war
• Napoleon Bonapart
• Linn Sondek LP12
• turntable
• cannons
• Virginia 5th Regiment
• digital recording
• Warning
• damage to speakers
• graphic equilizer a no-no
• Linn Ittok LVII mk2 /Asack
• tonearm/cartridge combo
• SACD
• Afrikitty

[connybbad]

Some people need to lighten up you sissy babbling wuss pots.

Here's what I read: "WAAAAHHHH! you said something I disagree with, let me insult you while you can't see me."

And then the audiophiles are going "Waaaaaaahhhhh, I'm a better audiophile than you!" If you don't like it, go out, buy the disc, stick it in and listen to it at home. Also remember to tell yourself that you ARE the best and will fight everyone who will try to take that from you.

[7thMarch1987]

@connybbad ROFLOL

WELL SAID!

[redhootie123]

Didn't shock me the first time. I feel so boring. : (

[7thMarch1987]

@redhootie123 Awwwwwwwwwwww, you shouldn't take it so personally! :-)

[nielen1]

@connybbad Hear Hear Old Chap!

[TheMusicalGiant]

Needs more cannon.

[Shrieken213]

@7thMarch1987 Alright, I'm uploading the FLAC-converted-to-AIFF copies now.

[dirtnasty81]

Needs more Cowbell. Other then that love it grados 80i

[khunopie]

1 person stood in front of he cannon. RIP

[Shrieken213]

@7thMarch1987 So what you're saying is that they *should* be distorted?

Hmm...something wrong with that comment, don't you think?

FLAC copies show the cannons to have a short, clean blast. This video makes them sound like the are like the intro to Inception.

[7thMarch1987]

@Shrieken213 Excuse me, Sir, cannons are SUPPOSED to be distorted. TELARC never CLAIMED that they were not distorted as cannons should be.

Now if FLAC has undistorted them, you have a PROBLEM! Period!

Sheeeeeeeesh, I thought I was a fer-nicketty audiophile. You need to get some distortion into your cannons, like there SHOULD be, or else you might start getting, what in the business is known as, "listener's fatigue", and that is a really bad phenomenon to suffer from.

[Shrieken213]

@7thMarch1987 I got the FLAC copies of this album. Compared to the FLAC, this video has distorted cannons...like extremely distorted. The rest is fine, though.