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

[Steven Smolian <smolians@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yet some of the early Denon digital LPs sounded more than apssing fair.  I 
recall a terrific Bruckner 7 and a Heldenleben and a great Mendelssohn 
Octet.

Steve Smolian
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Russell W. Miller" <rwm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 9:32 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Preservation media WAS: Cataloguing still :-)


> Yes, I've always understood this LP (Telemann: 12 Fantasies for Flute,
> played by Jean-Pierre Rampal) to be the first digitally recorded LP 
> released
> in the US.  Denon made this recording in 1972(!)  I assume it was 14-bit,
> like their other early digital productions.
>
> Russell
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List
> > [mailto:ARSCLIST@xxxxxxx]On Behalf Of David Lennick
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 6:18 PM
> > To: ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Preservation media WAS: Cataloguing still :-)
> >
> >
> > 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" <thorenstd124@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 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 <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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