RCA living stereo releases.....

Here good things about these. ANy titles that come to mind? Reiner? Im on a tight budget...what would be the best used options?

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stringreen Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 6,484 posts 11-30-2008 at 02:08pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete SACD is fine if you have an SACD player that can extract the magic, and not just play SACD's. The vinyl editions are probably a bit better if you have the vinyl playback abilities that will do that justice.
stringreen Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 6,484 posts 11-30-2008 at 04:41pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete ..just a response to the Heifitz Mendelsohn violin concerto... I know it may be heresy, but to these ears, Joshua Bell's interpretation is not only better, but a revelation. It is also recorded on SACD and on my system, the sound is better than the Heifitz on LP.
don_chisholm Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 32 posts 12-05-2008 at 11:09pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete It's not heresy. To my ears (not a violinist, but a performing and teaching musician) I have been disappointed with a number of his recordings, most recently his recording of the Beethoven Violin Concerto that I discovered in my vinyl collection. This is one of the simplest, yet most musical works in the repertoire and I think his recording with Munch/Boston seems to lack ... a lot. (On the other hand, Ostraikh/USSR is great. Not flawless, but worth every second.) Don't mean to derail the thread ... back to RCA!