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Re: [ARSCLIST] Preservation media WAS: Cataloguing still :-)
Digital recording was adding insult to injury,as mass-market classical Lps were on a downhill slide,ever since the late 60s,with Decca/London in the UK,being the noteable exception.As the 70s went on,the Londons,were actually better in sound,and vinyl,to those pressed in the UK,for domestic consumption.The German pressings,from the 70s sucked.I didn't realize this,until I had bought a German pressing,of the Solti "Alpine Symphony",on eBone.The early digital Londons,were made a little more listenable,on the Japanese King pressings,of the early 80s.I have such a pressing,of the Solti/CSO "Pictures",as well as the Dutch-pressed "US" London,and the difference is noticeable,to say the least.These still have the old ffss label.It is too bad,Solti didn't insist on Wilkie,and analogue,for his recordings.He sold so well,I suppose,he could have done it.
I may be wrong,but I don't think Columbia got into Digital,until 1980,and then gradually phased it in.(I have some Isaac Stern recorded,after 1980,that is analogue.)Polygram,as it was called then,(DG,Philips,London),follwed by EMI, were first,if I recall.
Roger Kulp
David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Wasn't the first LP from digital originals an Odyssey release (c. 1978) of flute
sonatas, recorded in Japan a couple of years earlier? I remember that info being
proclaimed on the jacket. Telemann flute sonatas or trio sonatas or something
along those lines.
Gawd those first "Digital!" lps from Angel, London and DGG were ghastly..Angel's
were also low level, not what we needed in those days of lousy vinyl.
dl
David Lewiston wrote:
> Um. Somewhat before that, I'm pretty sure.
>
> I recall sitting with Tracey Sterne while she was still at Nonesuch (Warner
> fired her in '79) and hear her bitch about the atrocious unmusicality of the
> new medium.
>
> Salutations, David Lewiston
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Roger and Allison Kulp"
> To:
> Sent: September 05, 2006 10:08 AM
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Preservation media WAS: Cataloguing still :-)
>
> > Japan.Sony inroduced them,like 1981 or so.
> > Roger Kulp
> >
> > steven c wrote: ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Don Cox"
> >> How did engineers make the first CDs, when hard drives were not big
> >> enough to hold 600 Megs of data?
> >>
> > Actually, I'm not sure...but one way it COULD have been done is with
> > magnetic tape storage, since that was used on mainframe computers at
> > least in the early seventies, if not before. When I was working my
> > way through university as a security guard for State Farm ('74-'76)
> > I recall seeing carts loaded with HUGE reels of data tape...and I
> > have no idea what the length v. data capacity algorithm might have
> > been (or how many reels of tape, if more than one, would be needed
> > to store the digital capacity of a CD...?)
> >
> > In fact, where WERE CD's introduced commercially?
> >
> > Steven C. Barr
> >
> >
> >
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