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Re: [ARSCLIST] Pristine Audio (?!)
Stragely enough I recall decent 78 sound on some of the the brown-cover
Caoitol reissues from Telefunken.
Steve Smolian
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From: "David Lennick" <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 7:57 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Pristine Audio (?!)
Marcos Sueiro Bal wrote:
Having said that, I always say that any transfer is usually better than
no transfer (unless you damage the original, of course).
Bullshit. Sorry. Bad transfers are bad transfers and do nothing to convert
the very people we want to get to listen to something other than the
latest hotshot tenor or headbanger. Most early LP transfers of 78s were
holy horrors (wow, bad joins, level flux), even when they were dubbed from
the 16-inch originals (Columbia's early LP transfers from English and
European 78s are unspeakably bad by any standards) and these were followed
by attempts to "modernize" them with reverb and bad EQ and then squeeze 33
minutes onto a twelve-inch side. Camdens for the most part were even
worse. It's no wonder that a generation or two had no respect for the
previous 25 years of recorded sound when it was presented to them in that
manner.
dl