As a classical music enthusiast who also cares greatly about sound quality, I find that often times even the best available recording of a piece has issues.
Sometimes the noise floor of the recording equipment itself is too high, which gets to be distracting during the quiet segments.
Sometimes the equipment had a frequency response that attenuates or accentuates certain bands. A lot of older recordings didn't capture bass frequencies very well, for example.
Sometimes the recording captured sounds that aren't part of the music. Examples include page turns, coughing, air conditioners, breathing, etc.
I have been doing what I can to address these issues for my own benefit. I have remastered several of my favorite pieces to improve the sound. I have no affiliation with any studios, so I am working off of CD, and making judgment calls based on my own preferences.
At some point I started posting the results to youtube, so that others who like classical music and care about sound quality might benefit from my efforts.
The most popular piece I've posted is
Borodin: Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor
The most recent piece I've posted is
Saint-Saëns Symphony 2
(Each movement links to the next in the description)
I figured this subforum might be the right group of people to appreciate these efforts and possibly recommend additional recordings to work on. Most pieces that will make sense to improve will probably be from composers a little outside the mainstream. Popular pieces will likely have dozens or hundreds of recordings, and among those there's almost certainly one with high quality audio.
If you'd like to recommend a recording that has a lot of potential, but has a little bit too much noise, or a questionable spectral balance, I would appreciate it.
Sometimes the noise floor of the recording equipment itself is too high, which gets to be distracting during the quiet segments.
Sometimes the equipment had a frequency response that attenuates or accentuates certain bands. A lot of older recordings didn't capture bass frequencies very well, for example.
Sometimes the recording captured sounds that aren't part of the music. Examples include page turns, coughing, air conditioners, breathing, etc.
I have been doing what I can to address these issues for my own benefit. I have remastered several of my favorite pieces to improve the sound. I have no affiliation with any studios, so I am working off of CD, and making judgment calls based on my own preferences.
At some point I started posting the results to youtube, so that others who like classical music and care about sound quality might benefit from my efforts.
The most popular piece I've posted is
Borodin: Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor
The most recent piece I've posted is
Saint-Saëns Symphony 2
(Each movement links to the next in the description)
I figured this subforum might be the right group of people to appreciate these efforts and possibly recommend additional recordings to work on. Most pieces that will make sense to improve will probably be from composers a little outside the mainstream. Popular pieces will likely have dozens or hundreds of recordings, and among those there's almost certainly one with high quality audio.
If you'd like to recommend a recording that has a lot of potential, but has a little bit too much noise, or a questionable spectral balance, I would appreciate it.