Reference Recordings RR-21 SEALED Half Speed Audiophile
  $   79

 


$ 79 Sold For
Apr 26, 2008 Sold Date
Apr 16, 2008 Start Date
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12   Number Of Bids
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Description

"Star of Wonder"    

Music for the Christmas Season

featuring the San Francisco Choral Artists

Reference Recordings RR-11

HALF SPEED MASTERED

A Professor Keith Johnson Pure Analog Recording *

Record:  Sealed

Jacket: Sealed

From the Reference Recordings web site:

STAR OF WONDER
Festive music for the holiday season performed by an outstanding mixed chorus with pipe organ, harp, flute and bellringers! Recorded in the glorious cathedral acoustics of Saint Ignatius Church, San Francisco. "...Magical...the sound is impressively transparent." --Fanfare

Tracks:

  • Silent Night
  • Nativity Carol
  • We Three Kings of Orient Are
  • Noel Nouvelet
  • Come Dear Children
  • Cantate Domino
  • Gloria
  • Gaudete Omnes
  • Caroling, Caroling
  • The Nativity
  • Green Grow'th the Holly
  • Interlude from a "Cermony of Carols"
  • Lo! How a Rose E'er Blooming
  • O Magnum Mysterium
  • Virga Jesse
  • We'll Dress the House
  • O Come, All Ye Faithful
  • Deck the Hall

 * A Professor (Keith) Johnson Pure Analog Recording:

(quoted from the album jacket)

"These recordings are made in solidly constructed, well seasoned and proven concert spaces. Microphones are classic generic types having omnidirectional, first and second order cardiod, and bi-directional pickup patterns. These are constructed from Schepps, AKG and RCA elements direct mounted to phase and frequency compensating fast slew class A line driving amplifiers. Microphone pairs used for these recordings are phase and frequency matched to a 1/4" B&K precision reference microphone. The recordings are made without transformers, peaking equalizers or phase-destructive microphone matrices almost always encountered in professional equipment. Microphone placement techniques range from simple onmi pairs to complex multi-space delay mixxes to achieve full roundness of instruments with front to back placement in a real space. Articulation and body felt transient impact of the real performances are preserved through the use of these techniques, and by avoiding production efficient multi-mono studio mix-downs. Microphone signals feed to a virtually one-a-kind focussed gap magnetic recorder. This machine features a 3.5 megaherz beamed RF bias record head capable of recording intense high frequency energy levels. The entire system has very low time delay modulation and signal induced noise, as well as elaborate low and high frequency phase equilizers. Coupled with a near-O loop transport mechanism, the recorder has tonal purity and transient power not available from conventional recorders. The master lacquers are cut directly from this machine playing its master tape, operating at half speed, to preserve the phase, transient and amplitude characteristics of the original microphone signals."

                                                                                                Shipping Instructions

All bids welcome. US funds only. Buyer pays for shipping. Shipping includes packing record in brand new stiff cardboard box custom cut for records. Additional cardboard used to protect top and bottom of record. This provides superior protection versus bubble packed envelop mailer. US shipping is $4.50 USPS Media Mail. Combined shipping welcome. Fifty cents for each additional album. International buyers welcome. Records can be shipped USPS International Priority Mail  (this  includes insurance) or First Class Airmail. Priority Mail is recommended as it provides tracking and insurance for your valuable records. Not responsible for uninsured records lost or damaged in the mail.   Thank you for your interest.

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