Re: [ARSCLIST] Preservation media WAS: Cataloguing still :-)

["Richard L. Hess" <arclists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 07:46 PM 9/5/2006, David Lennick wrote:
> Anyone remember DBX-encoded LPs? M&K Realtime came in and did a 
> helluva demo at the station. No point to
> our taking the discs, of course, because we weren't about to spring 
> for the decoder to play the 3 LPs
> they had available, and the "normal" versions sounded just fine 
> (Zoltan Rozsnyai conducting some good
> "demo" classical pieces).
>
> 10 years later I found a CD issue of those same recordings and it 
> was terrible..the orchestra sounded
> like a high school band, badly miked.

Do you think they forgot to decode the dbx ? ? ?

I'm pretty sure the Man of LaMancha Original Broadway Cast that I 
have on CD was NOT played back through an AME Equalizer before it went to CD.

Cheers,

Richard

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