To Quote Monty Python - "And now for something completely different"

ISTVAN A KIRALY - Hungarian. A great Hungarian rock opera titled "Istvan the king", written by two founding members of the well known 60's psych/beat band "Illes", Levente Szorenyi and Janos Brody, performed by leading actors and rock musicians of Hungary.

Carlos' musical education began when she started playing the piano at the age of six. Her formal education included Brown University where she studied music and physics, and Columbia University where she earned an MA in music. At Columbia, Carlos was a student of Vladimir Ussachevsky, a pioneer in electronic music. After graduation, she met Robert Moog and was one of his earliest customers, providing feedback for his further development of the Moog synthesizer. Around 1966, Carlos met Rachel Elkind who produced her early albums. Carlos has lived in New York since 1962.

Pioneering Japanese composer and synthesizer expert Isao Tomita bridged the gap between note-by-note classical/electronic LPs like Switched-On Bach and the more futuristic, user-friendly interfaces developed in the 1970s. After creating one of the first personal recording studios with an array of top synthesizer gear in the early '70s, Tomita applied his visions for space-age synthesizer music to his favorite modern composers – Claude Debussy, Igor Stravinsky, Maurice Ravel – though his recordings steered a course far beyond the sterile academics of Wendy Carlos and other synthesists. Born in Tokyo in 1932, Tomita grew up in China as well as Japan, studying composition and music theory as well as art history at Keio University. After graduation in 1955, Tomita began composing film, television and theater music. He was awarded frequently during the 1950s and '60s, and became perhaps the most well-known contemporary Japanese composer.

Pioneering Japanese composer and synthesizer expert Isao Tomita bridged the gap between note-by-note classical/electronic LPs like Switched-On Bach and the more futuristic, user-friendly interfaces developed in the 1970s. After creating one of the first personal recording studios with an array of top synthesizer gear in the early '70s, Tomita applied his visions for space-age synthesizer music to his favorite modern composers – Claude Debussy, Igor Stravinsky, Maurice Ravel – though his recordings steered a course far beyond the sterile academics of Wendy Carlos and other synthesists. Born in Tokyo in 1932, Tomita grew up in China as well as Japan, studying composition and music theory as well as art history at Keio University. After graduation in 1955, Tomita began composing film, television and theater music. He was awarded frequently during the 1950s and '60s, and became perhaps the most well-known contemporary Japanese composer.

This is one of the most comprehensive of any of the test CD's. It can be used for anything from aligning tape head azimuth to speaker frequency range, testing noise levels of either your cd player or amplifier/receiver, etc.

Emerson, Lake & Powell, sometimes abbreviated as ELPowell, were an English rock band, an offshoot or variant lineup of Emerson, Lake & Palmer that released one official studio album in 1986.

Háry János is an opera in four acts by Zoltán Kodály to a Hungarian libretto by Béla Paulini and Zsolt Harsányi, based on the comic epic The Veteran by János Garay. First performance: Royal Hungarian Opera House, Budapest, 1926.

The story is of a veteran hussar in the Austro-Hungarian army who sits in the village inn regaling his listeners with fantastic tales of heroism: his supposed exploits include winning the heart of the Empress Marie Louise, the wife of Napoleon, and then single-handedly defeating Napoleon and his armies. From the music of the opera, Kodály extracted the orchestral Háry János Suite, one of the most popular pieces in the classical repertoire.

This Sheffield Lab Compact Disc is manufactured from live two-track reference tape recorded simultaneously with the original direct
disc performance of this album. This Compact Disc offers a dramatic increase in transparency and phase linearity due to the exclusive
use of custom electronics and microphones. Because this Compact Disc is manufactured from an original, live, two-track reference tape,
many generations of signal degradation from multi-track recorders and dub-downs is completely eliminated. This Sheffield Lab Compact
Disc has all the unique musical excitement and energy that can only be found in live, unedited performance recordings.

This Sheffield Lab Compact Disc is manufactured from live two-track reference tape recorded simultaneously with the original direct
disc performance of this album. This Compact Disc offers a dramatic increase in transparency and phase linearity due to the exclusive
use of custom electronics and microphones. Because this Compact Disc is manufactured from an original, live, two-track reference tape,
many generations of signal degradation from multi-track recorders and dub-downs is completely eliminated. This Sheffield Lab Compact
Disc has all the unique musical excitement and energy that can only be found in live, unedited performance recordings.

This Sheffield Lab Compact Disc is manufactured from live two-track reference tape recorded simultaneously with the original direct
disc performance of this album. This Compact Disc offers a dramatic increase in transparency and phase linearity due to the exclusive
use of custom electronics and microphones. Because this Compact Disc is manufactured from an original, live, two-track reference tape,
many generations of signal degradation from multi-track recorders and dub-downs is completely eliminated. This Sheffield Lab Compact
Disc has all the unique musical excitement and energy that can only be found in live, unedited performance recordings.

This Sheffield Lab Compact Disc is manufactured from live two-track reference tape recorded simultaneously with the original direct
disc performance of this album. This Compact Disc offers a dramatic increase in transparency and phase linearity due to the exclusive
use of custom electronics and microphones. Because this Compact Disc is manufactured from an original, live, two-track reference tape,
many generations of signal degradation from multi-track recorders and dub-downs is completely eliminated. This Sheffield Lab Compact
Disc has all the unique musical excitement and energy that can only be found in live, unedited performance recordings.

By 1983 MoFi had grown into a company with over 25 employees and grossing over $8 million annually. Then they nearly lost it all. The new darling on the scene was the compact disc. Because MoFi had been putting something on the order of 20% of their earnings back into research, they were prepared for the next wave. In the mid ‘80s, they launched their assault on the CD market with their half-speed
wares.

Their first efforts were released on aluminum discs, very much like all other discs at the time. And, in fact, some of these have become quite rare. Recently copies of them regularily go for >$75 on e-Bay. Partly, in an effort to justify the higher price they needed to charge, MoFi began to release their works on gold-plated compact discs called UltraDiscs. Although gold in and of itself isn’t significantly better than aluminum for the reproduction of ones and zeros, it oxidizes roughly ten times more slowly than aluminum. It is also supposed to coat more evenly than aluminum. This last attribute is said to cut down on the pin-holing so common to aluminum CDs, which allows for less error-correction during playback. This means more of the actual recording and less processor interpolation gets to your ears. So there was some inherent advantage to the gold treatment.