Music to Listen to KLH By
Excerpts from recordings by Everest and Concert-Disc.
KLH VSR-101 (LP).
Don’t be misled by the title of this. It’s fine for listening to KLH by, and it is also fine for listening to any other top-notch reproducer by. It is, in fact, the best, and most musical, stereo demonstration disc that’s come along to date.
The KLH demo disc offers musically complete selections (instead of fragments) and a bare minimum of hokum in the discing, and the sound is excellent: very transparent, warmly natural, with an extremely smooth, un-hyped high end. Lows are quite deep and solid, although not quite as deep as we’ve heard from some discs. It’s interesting, though, to note that these excerpts, which were presumably cut from the same master tapes as the original Everest and Concert-Disc releases, are much more smooth and lucid than the originals.
This is one demo disc that’s worth buying. If your local KLH dealer doesn’t stock it (it is not available through record stores), it can be ordered for $2.98 directly from KLH.