Wilson Audio - WAR & PEACE - W-8823 - TAS - sealed

$ 139

$ 139 Sold For

Mar 26, 2005 Sold Date

Mar 16, 2005 Start Date

$ 25 Start price

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Wilson Audio Specialties - WINDS OF WAR AND PEACE (One of the two Band Records)- Wilson W-8823 - TAS - Factory Sealed - BEST!!

It is hard to know where to start or stop in discussing this record, let me tell you.

First off, it's recorded by loudspeaker manufacturer David Wilson, one of the best recordists on the planet. (He wanted real music that he could witness, know in his bones, to help him design the best loudpseakers. So, he took up recording.)

Next, the people involved in this recording project reads like a Hall of Fame list in audiophilia: John Curl (of Mark Levinson renown) designed the recorder; Sheffield Lab and Doug Sax were pulled in for the mastering, Teldec did the pressing, and the whole enterprise was auditioned through Wilson WATTs and WAMMs, utilizing Spectral electronics from Keith Johnson (Reference Records).

Fact is, even Harry Pearson of TAS was present for moral support, I'm told.

And, yes, from the first moment Lowell Graham starts conducting the National Symphonic Winds, give that listening chair seat-belt an ol' tug tight, ok?

VICTORY AT SEA, FESTIVAL FANFARE, COMMANDO MARCH---these are going to be blowing some strong music your way. (And from an acoustic you can quite literally "see," the recording is so very fine.)

Among my top fifty records, to be sure, this copy factory sealed.

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33 RPM, LP