Re: [ARSCLIST] Cetra pressings

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Okay, I found Gianni Schicchi on a later Capitol Cetra pressing. Like night and 
day..the Capitol rolls everything off and sounds like a 1930s radio aircheck. 
But it's STILL distorted and unlistenable. I'm writing off this whole set (how 
could anybody not know how ghastly some of these things sounded? Fancy 
packaging and all). Let us presume that an Italian issue isn't going to be any 
better.

David Lennick wrote:
> Anyone know if the early 50s Puccini one-acters (Gianni Schicchi, Il 
> Tabarro, Suor Angelica) sound any better on Italian pressings than they 
> do in the American ones, which seldom rise above the ghastly? Molto 
> distorto, especially in choruses and ensemble passages and I swear I 
> heard radio static once or twice. (Gianni is also mastered off-speed, 
> 2.4% fast on side 1.)
>
> Grazie.
>
> dl