I read some of the old posts that started this thread, and I'm a bit surprised that people like the sound of the Telarc violin concerto recording. I listened to this yesterday and it seems like every time the orchestra comes in, the recording suddenly becomes swamped with an overwhelming amount of reverb. It's distracting, since the soloist sounds quite good. I much prefer hearing the orchestra instead of the room, but it seems the engineering couldn't tame this space.