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Why organ music

I have a nice ss - CD set up that satisfies me most of the time, but am re-tasting LP's. The one kind if music that always sounds much better to me on LP, even with my very modest LP system is organ music. I used to play organ myself. But I also play piano and can relish well recorded piano on CD. To me, organ on CD is very hard to listen to. Anyone have idea why I notice such a difference with organ versus other instruments?
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gammajo OP
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Thank you all for your well-considered responses. I am definitely not overdriving the system which is 400 watt per and being played at moderate volume. I could be that my CD's of organ are fairly lousy. They are mostly from the very first years CD came out and I particularly dont like the Telarc ones. I will get a copy of Felix Hell's and try that. If anyone else has great CD's of Bach etc to recommend I love to recieve them.
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Onhwy61 Great idea that I had not considered. I can play the offending CD's on my other system which is in a 21x25 basement room no glass, fully carpeted and lots of books etc and see what I get. In fact that is where the LP system is and perhaps the room is making it more pleasant down there as much as the LP.
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gammajo OP
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I got the Hell organ CD and it sounded wonderful on my main system! What a kick to be 14 and playing the biggest and best pipe organs in the world. At that age I played in a small Church on a Hammond B and still remember the sense of power that gave me. So part of my problem was with poorly recorded early CD's of organ. Also I listened to my basement system with both organ CD and LP and they are much closer on this less resolving system in a less lively room. Yet the LP's have a certain je'ne se pas quality that is very appealing even on a $400 TT
Joe
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