Re: [ARSCLIST] Early HiFi, was: Re: [ARSCLIST] discography of "direct-to-disk revival"?

[steven c <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "phillip holmes" <insuranceman@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 8Hz?  That's as bad as MP3!
> 
First...8 KILOHertz...my error!

Yes...but the 8KHz that cuts off is one octave...and is probably not the
fundamental tone of any musical instrument. If it is present, it adds to
the sound of things like cymbals (and possibly stringed instruments?).
It would be interesting to use sharp high-pass filtering to cut out
everything below 8KHz and see/hear what remained...

> steven c wrote:
> > Well...electrically-recorded 78's do have a surprising degree of
> > fidelity...for quite logical reasons. Acoustic recording effectively
> > cut off the low frequencies around 200 Hz or so...where even the
> > fundamentals are well within the range of the human ear...while
> > electric recording, even in its early years, could record much
> > lower frequencies (and did). I have pipe-organ recordings on
> > Victor and Columbia, made in the twenties...which actually provide
> > the sort of bass response beloved of present-day "music" lovers...
> > bass you feel rather than hear. The weakness in that era was the
> > effective 8Hz top-end cutoff; however, that only removes the top
> > octave from the recordings! I suspect that twenties record buyers
> > were more impressed by the bass (which they had never heard...even
> > if it could have been recorded, it wouldn't have been reproduced!).
> >
> > Steven C. Barr
> >
> >
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