Sonically: Just a CD not DSD
A techno geek | Kihei, Maui, HI USA | 07/15/2009
(2 out of 5 stars)
"For someone looking for an audiophile version of this recording, this SACD release is a misrepresentation. As the liner notes state, the source is a 44.1 KHz 24 bit digital recording made in 1998. So, the sampling rate here cannot capture the timbre of the violin nor the spatial staging. You do get 5+1 channels, which is nice. DGG has put out a lot of SACDs whose sources are at most 96KHz and not DSD, which is a shame since that's all that was in the original. It would be more truthful if some kind of labeling warned the buyer that this is not a DSD recording and won't have the fidelity of DSD."