[BC] Turntables (WAS:Achieving good S/N)

[Rich Wood]

------ At 02:57 PM 1/3/2006, Steve wrote: -------

>Mercury Records (famous for the Minneapolis S.O. Recording of the 1812 with
>Dorati conducting) was also into the 35mm Magnetic film recording bit. BTW,
>the Mercury recording of The 1812 Festival Overture is still considered by
>many to be the definitive recording of the work by P.I.T. Also by many
>audiophiles. Happy I have a vinyl of that one in good shape.

I had a copy of it. If I remember right it had a commentary by Deems 
Taylor about the actual cannons used. Even the later version (Telarc, 
I think) didn't compare to the Mercury  cannons.

Rich


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