MERCURY LIVING PRESENCE

Sdcampbell, you are pretty quick with the keyboard! Excellent post! I should point out for Honda's benefit, if he didn't know, that you can (unless they're all sold out) get a few of the Mercs and many of the RCA's as reissued by Classic Records, which lack some of the warmth of the originals but have advantages in the bass, dynamics and surfaces. On a side note, the CD remasterings have uniformly been excellent, and I agree with your description of them vs. the vinyl; wonder if Phillips could/will reissue on SACD, since they own the tapes? I find that SACD does an excellent job giving a natural rendition of recorded space, among other things; might even get more of those famous Mercury dynamics.

Also with respect to the second post by the quick-fingered Mr. Campbell, the series he's referring to is in TAS, a series of articles by Sid Marks, I believe.

thanks guys for all the help.my friend found the mercurys on the street & gave them to me because he knows how much i love vinyl..there was even an rca shaded dog of fritz reiner & the chicago symphony gotta get him a gift now.
happy listening