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Re: [ARSCLIST] discography of "direct-to-disk revival"?
OK Tom, You're welcome to your opinion,but I still maintain,there were a lot of great recordings made,in the years from 1925-35, especially from RCA,and Brunswick (Jazz/Popular),and RCA,and Deutsche Gramophon (Classical).Some of these sound better on the Lp transfers,from the 50s,while some sound better on the original 78s.For my money,good mono recording,was perfected by The Depression,and only continued to improve in the postwar years.The early mono Mercs,being an obvious revolutionary improvement,but the RCA Stock/CSOs were nothing to sneeze at either.I have yet to hear a bad sounding Columbia Masterworks 78,on the early blue shellac. The early electrical Brunswicks,have a very unique,etherial,and fragile tubey sound,unlike any other records I have ever heard.Almost an audio equivalent an early handblown tube.
Roger
Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
OK, no offense but anyone who hears "perfect sound" on 78 has tin ears! That medium is low-fidelity
by any serious definition. The only reason I can see listening to a 78 is if the performance is so
to your taste that you can imagine it sounding good -- because what's coming off those grooves ain't
near sounding good!
-- Tom Fine
----- Original Message -----
From: "phillip holmes"
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Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 8:10 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] discography of "direct-to-disk revival"?
> Perfect sound forever (unlike CD, they may actually last forever).
>
> steven c wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "David Lennick"
>>
>>> Norman Field, over on 78-L, has referred a couple of times to a trad jazz
>>>
>> band
>>
>>> recording for a British label that had decided to produce its first LP and
>>> hadn't acquired any tape equipment yet, so that was D2D in 1950!
>>>
>>>
>> Well, I have thousands of direct-to-disc recordings...all 78's!
>>
>> Steven C. Barr
>>
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>>
>>
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