Audiophiles beware
Gregory Olsen | San Ramon, CA | 02/25/2009
(3 out of 5 stars)
"This disc has a nice selection of overtures by Wagner, however, be careful buying this disc. Unless you carefully blow up the cover art, you will be surprised to find that the recording has been put through a digital effects processor called Spatializer that is supposed to give a surround sound experience out of stereo equipment. The ultimate effect of this processing is that on high-end audiophile-grade gear, the artifacts of the digital processing ruin the audio experience, particularly through good headphones.
So three stars for the selection and the performance, one star for the audio quality."