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Hi Mojo,

Carol Rosenberger, for one. Back in the vinyl days, this Delos recording, "Water Music of the Impressionists," engineered by John Eargle, who wrote the standard text on studio mike technique, was one of the few audiophile recordings of La Cathedrale Engloutie (The Sunken Cathedral) played on a big Bosendorfer that had authentic 16-Hz content.

I have it on vinyl but it's been reissued on CD here:

http://www.amazon.com/Water-Music-Impres...4067&sr=1-7

I haven't played that disc in years by it's a good recording.

Regards,

The BeachBoys PetSound DVD-A on the ‘God Only Knows’ studio-take track, the bassist hit the pickup(s) while playing a note and there’s this very loud subsonic thump that really shakes the room. It’s kinda of cool because it only happens once … I can see it being annoying if it happens on every other bar, though.

There's a thump like this on the Eric Clapton:Unplugged CD and I thought someone was in my bathroom. No word of a lie...it was downright scary .

I have to agree with Alan that this is one band of the frequency spectrum that we don't want to hear.

Funny.... all my old equipment had infrasonic filters specifically to get rid of those frequencies!

Mark,

Yeah, and it was often called a "Rumble Filter". Later vintage 2-channel preamps changed that to "Subsonic Filter", and it was switchable.

In this age of high-performance subwoofers, an argument could be made for reinstating the switchable subsonic filter on AV receivers so you could engage it when needed with flawed recordings.

Regards,

Alan, thanks for the tip on "Water Music of the Impressionists." I'm going to pick up a used copy and try it out.

I looked at the Bosendorfer New York website and found a list of artists that use Bosies (Tori Amos, Leonard Bernstein, Placido Domingo, Lionel Richie, Arturo Sandoval, Joe Zawinul and Oscar Peterson to name a few. Also, Bosendorfer makes loudspeakers as well.

Alan, I received that disc today, and I listened to that track. Pretty cool! You're right about it being a good recording. I was surprised to find it was an all-digital (DDD) recording from 1983. Anyway, very cool. I'll have to listen to the whole disc later.

Hi CV,

Great! I'm delighted you like it. I knew it was an early digital recording because it appeared in a vinyl audiophile transfer (the one that I'm still digging through my collection to find) before the CD version was available.

Regards,

I hope they're not related to BOSE!