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Re K McBain's posting, while I am interested
in the content of many vintage records, and enjoy listening to them as much as
modern digital items, I am also fascinated by them as objets d'art in their own
right, and am a self-confessed "anorak" (to use the English phrase) when it
comes to label variants, matrix numbers and so on.
Also while I buy the odd CD transfer of vintage
material (in which case it is purely for the content) I MUCH prefer to listen to
the original and have set up my modest private archive for preservation of the
same.
To me a CD or other modern-carrier transfer is like
a photocopy of a rare postage stamp. It has all the content of the
original but is just not the same.
Stephen Sutton
Northern Vintage Recordings Archive
(England)
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