This SACD from The Netherlands was obviously at least partly sponsored by the Dutch makers of the great-sounding, outrageously beautiful and expensive Kharma loudspeakers - they’re more prominently featured on the front cover art than the singer. Philips, Marantz and Siltech were also heavily involved. The background or nationality of singer Gomes is not revealed; she’s young, blonde and seems to have no accent, but I found her enunciation somewhat slovenly. Her voice is superb and she tackles a variety of tunes, of which only two of the dozen total are not either her originals or her arrangements. The two exceptions are Billie Holiday’s Billie’s Blues and Gershwin’s Summertime, the latter opening the album. The producers of this SACD adopted a variation of the center channel approach used on the James Taylor SACDs. Carmen’s voice is not 100% in the center channel but only a rolled-off low-level version of it is audible in the left and right front channels. If you don’t have a center channel you’ll have to listen to the stereo mix of this SACD. The surrounds are used only for a feeling of the room’s natural ambience, with some sounds - such as higher-pitched percussion - standing out in the reflective acoustics. The live audience is amazingly quite during the music - the liner note writer attributes this to their all being subscribers to a Dutch audio magazine. Had they made just a low-level babble it would have contributed to the envelopment feel of the surround. But what really wakes you up to this being a live session is the audience applause between tunes. Applause has always been a great audio test source, and here it demonstrates how seamlessly your front and surround speakers create the sounds around you. Tunes: Summertime, Heaven is a State of Mind, Pastora, I Believe, Take it Al, I’ll Pay the Band, Gazing at the Sun, Green and Blue, Soul, Billie’s Blues, September, It’s About Time
英文介绍看着很累，那位好心人给个中文介绍啊。
