SD, Supraphon still exists, I picked up a recently-recorded Mahler 9th with Macaal and the Prague Symphony (I think) when I was in Prague last year, along with a number of other titles. Might currently need a US importer. Recording quality was good, not great--sounds like the recording equipment is not up to current best standards, but certainly respectable. On the Telarc comments, I know what the complaints are about, although they work quite well on my speaker system, which is a quasi-omni, wide dispersion speaker system. I would imagine it has to do a lot with their spaced omni recording technique, which certainly is not conducive to pinpoint imaging or spotlighting individual instruments in a soundstage. I do note that some of the Telarcs recorded overseas with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, which had Malkinson and Tony Faulkner, I believe, doing the engineering, sound quite different than the usual Telarc house sound and may be more to your liking. On thread, I generally concur with SD's recommendations, though I would add Delos to the list of high quality classical labels (some of their early recordings were a bit bright, but on the whole they are excellently engineered).
