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

[phillip holmes <insuranceman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike,
I've heard the same record.  If I recall correctly, it's recorded 
"direct to disk" at 45rpm.  I haven't heard a more dynamic record.  The 
range, from soft to loud, is the greatest I've heard on any vinyl.  
However, I don't think it's ALL because it's 45rpm and direct to disk 
(that's just cream and a cherry on top).  The mastering chain was top 
notch, the mastering engineer knew that this was for the audiophile 
crowd with top quality cartridges and tonearms, there was no limiting or 
compression (that I can hear), the microphone placement and type 
produced "spectacular sound" and it was pressed on the best vinyl 
compound ever made.   My favorite of the direct disk stuff is Harry 
James' "The King James Version".  Do you have that one? 
Phillip

Mike Richter wrote:
> . OTOH, you should hear a good 12" 45-rpm disc; I've a Japanese 
> recording of the Appassionata which comes as close as anything I've 
> heard to bringing a Boesendorfer Imperial Grand into my living room. 
> (Where a real one would be but for a few tens of thousands of dollars 
> and some extra decades of piano lessons. <G>)
>
> Mike