It was an authentic experience of the piece, even though the tone grew rather hard and worked sounding in sustained loud passages.
Anyone who ever made a cassette recording has watched the meter swing beyond the zero point on the scale during loud passages.
Many new players will search out the loudest passages automatically.
You've come up with a third kind of symphonic music: loud passages that you keep inside.
All but the loudest passages drifted by faintly as part of a general hubbub.
The result was increased "end-groove distortion" toward the center of the disc, particularly on loud passages.
In addition to loud percussive passages, there are also as periods of calm piano and straight dialogue.
Another characteristic of the 901's distinctive sound spread is that even the loudest passages never blast.
Although suitably small, it is acoustically dead and, in loud passages, painful.
Even in his loudest passages, the instrumental texture is always lucid.