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

[Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oy, the silver wires crowd. We flayed and paddled that whole universe of hokum on the Ampex List a 
while back. An aptly named character, Ms. Crock, put up a sorry fight for her "deep frozen" cables. 
The slitheriest of snakes sell this audio-junk. On par with the $50 wooden "audio damping" knob.

Using the original tape machine, especially with cassettes, and a direct signal path will beat any 
claims on any cable any day.

-- Tom Fine

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lou Judson" <loujudson@xxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 12:54 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Can 78s sound better than LPs?


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.=