Re: [ARSCLIST] Can 78s sound better than LPs?

[Lou Judson <loujudson@xxxxxxx>]

On Aug 25, 2006, at 8:00 AM, Bob Olhsson wrote:

>  There is no legitimate excuse for ever using less than the very best 
> audio technology available.

Bob -
For small time folks the legitimate excuse is cost and budget! As a 
professional audio engineer, I can operate a geniune, viable 
professional audio service with a Mac and a $1,000 I/O device. I could 
not own and operate a million dollar studio...

Maybe my clients are too poor to deserve the best. Steven is looking at 
an extremely lower budget, too... I guess the available budget counts 
asthe very best audio technology available? or not... ??

/Rant mode on
I'm working with a client now transferring his cassette collection to 
CDs - he insists the previous person who helped him was inferior 
because they only used the $1,000 "interconnects" instead of the $2,500 
wires we are using now to connect his cassette deck to my Digi system. 
However, I believe I am getting a far superior sound because of the 
better signal chain  - no processing at all except dither!

Interesting process - it is cassettes after all, one would expect it to 
be poor quality, but we are playing them on the actual deck they were 
recorded on, and they are original live recordings of a piano, no 
mixing or anything. 2 mics to cassette. There is plenty hiss and 
nothing above 16k but fine sound.

I still have a problem with people who think a better piece of wire is 
going to affect the sound. These audiphiles care nothing at all about 
the quality of the A/D, the CD type and burn speed, or if they are 
hearing 16 or 24 bit! I CAN hear a difference between 16 and 24 bit, 
but not between $10 wires and $2,500 wires, even if you plug them in 
backwards...

And he doesn't seem to mind that there is ten feet of cheap wire after 
the digi unit and to my monitor amp... he can still hear the difference 
between the expensive wires on the input. But the bottom line is, he is 
happier with my CD transfers of his cassettes than he was with the ones 
done by the previous guy who owns a real studio. Even on my $400, 
fifteen year old studio monitors.

rant mode off\ thanks for letting me rave. Don't know if this has 
anything at all to do with 78s, but it has everything to do with 
archiving!

(PS Thanks for the referral, Bob!)

<L>

Lou Judson • Intuitive Audio
415-883-2689

On Aug 25, 2006, at 8:00 AM, Bob Olhsson wrote:

>  There is no legitimate excuse for ever using less than the very best 
> audio technology available.