Boston Brass: Stealing the Show.Boston Brass: Stealing the Show. Recorded in 1996, at Holy Trinity Chapel Trinity Chapel in Canterbury Cathedral forms part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The chapel was added by William the Englishman as a shrine for the relics of St. Thomas Becket. The shrine became one of the most popular pilgrimage sites in England. , Boston College Boston College, main campus at Chestnut Hill, Mass.; coeducational; Jesuit; est. and opened 1863. Actually a university, the school's Chestnut Hill campus comprises colleges of arts and sciences and business administration, the graduate school, and schools of nursing , Newton, Massachusetts The City of Newton in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, is an important residential suburb of Boston, which abuts it on the east. According to the 2000 census, the population of the Newton was 83,829, making it the tenth largest city in the state. . Engineers: Bruce Humphrey and Tom Stephenson. 54+ minutes. Summit 272. This dramatic presentation of opera arias and operettas, done by a quintet of brass-instrument performers from Boston College, exhibits a wonderful sense of frontal depth, clarity, and detail. The overall sound is demo grade, as are the musical interpretations, but those interpretations are going to appeal mainly to those who very much love the sound of brass. Both DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive and DPL (Digital PowerLine) An earlier technology for transmitting a 1 Mbps data signal over electric power lines from Nortel Networks. It was developed in the late 1990s, but later abandoned due to implementation difficulties. See broadband over power lines. were excellent and helped in their usual ways to put the performance into a hall-like environment. However, with any of the modes that employed center steering, including the Yamaha Classical/Opera function, the usual reduction in center level by about -3 dB was necessary to minimize a collapse to the center. The "Hall" mode available from the Outlaw receiver also worked very well with this release. --HF |
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