立体声发明时代的神级录音 - RCA Red Seal , FLAC, WAV RCA Living stereo 60 Collection - Vol.1, 2
“Living Stereo”，是美国RCA Victor唱片公司的一个经典系列唱片名称。1950年，RCA 公司为对抗水星公司Living Presence系列唱片的竞争，积极投入立体声录音研究试验。
世界上没有任何一个录音方式比RCA Victor Living Stereo更能够代表高传真录音的黄金年代。这个傲人的成就由RCA唱片公司的音乐制作人及录音工程师在1950年中期研究开发完成，使古典乐录音技术由单声道跃升为立体声音响，并成为永久性的音响革命。“LIVING STEREO”系列唱片几乎每一张都有优异录音效果，它们都是当年RCA用AMPEX300磁带录音机、NEUMANN U-47与M-49/50无指向性麦克风录制的。RCA结合了当时最伟大的古典音乐大师和小提琴家海飞兹、钢琴家鲁宾斯坦、克莱本，女高音普莱丝，安娜莫芙及指挥家莱纳、费德勒等名家的演绎，不但受到消费市场的欢迎，同时也博得专家一致的肯定。Living Stereo为录音技术带入崭新的时代，并为立体声奠定了无法企及的崇高地位。
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Through the decade following 1953, RCA Victor made a wondrous and substantial body of recordings which have come to be identified with their early stereo release label, Living Stereo. At the beginning of the widespread adoption of stereo audio in the home, Living Stereo offered a widely available range of quality music and performances in high quality sound.
An impressive amount of these records offer music, performances and audio quality which are still top choices and in many cases, still definitive! In its recording philosophies, Living Stereo influenced many of the recordings made since. They were significant in terms of music and sound quality and represent an important part of audiophile history.
On October 6, 1953, RCA held experimental stereophonic sessions in New York's Manhattan Center with Leopold Stokowski conducting a group of New York musicians in performances of Enesco's Roumanian Rhapsody No. 1 and the waltz from Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin. There were additional stereo tests in December, again in the Manhattan Center, this time with Pierre Monteux conducting members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
In February 1954, RCA made its first commercial stereophonic recordings, taping the Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Charles Munch, in a performance of The Damnation of Faust by Hector Berlioz. This began a practice of simultaneously recording orchestras with both stereophonic and monaural equipment. Other early stereo recordings were made by Toscanini and Guido Cantelli respectively, with the NBC Symphony Orchestra; the Boston Pops Orchestra under Arthur Fiedler; and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Fritz Reiner.
Initially, RCA used RT-21 quarter-inch tape recorders (which ran at 30 inches per second), wired to mono mixers, with Neumann U-47 cardioid and M-49/50 omnidirectional microphones. Then they switched to an Ampex 300-3 one-half inch machine, running at 15 inches per second (which was later increased to 30 inches per second). These recordings were initially issued in 1955 on special stereophonic reel-to-reel tapes and then, beginning in 1958, on vinyl LPs with the logo ‘Living Stereo’.
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