[ARSCLIST] Tom Fine and 78 rpm records

[Francesco Martinelli <fmartinelli@xxxxxx>]

Dear Tom
you expressed several times already your dislike for 78 rpm records.
Doing it again and again everytime the subject comes up, on a list dedicated 
to sound archiving, is tedious. I also find the expressions you are using 
are also rather insulting for people who are interested in 78 rpm records, 
sometimes dedicating their lifes to what is for you a "vastly inferior 
listening experience" or just plainly enjoy listening to them (quorum ego). 
We got your point, you dislike 78 rpm records, this will not stop others 
collecting, listening and enjoying them, no need to harp on it every other 
message. Other people will start listening all the crimes committed on 
magnetic tape, or describe the horrors of mp3, and we will get one of those 
format flame wars that just do not contribute anything useful to a list like 
this.
Thank you for your consideration
Francesco Martinelli

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Fine" <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2007 12:58 AM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] King Oliver/Louis Armstrong Gennett recordings


: Right, this one:
: http://www.archeophone.com/product_info.php?products_id=85
:
: I assume the real CD doesn't have the digi-swishies that these online 
excerpts have?
:
: The instruments are quite a bit clearer than the LP I have but I guess the 
original media and
: recording method is just so vastly inferior that a decent listening 
experience is not possible.
:
: -- Tom Fine
:
: ----- Original Message ----- 
: From: "Sam Brylawski" <goodlistening@xxxxxxxxx>
: To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
: Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 4:14 PM
: Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] King Oliver/Louis Armstrong Gennett recordings
:
:
: > As Dick Spottswood reminded us earlier this week, listen to Rob
: > Bamberger's show, Hot Jazz Saturday Night at wamu.org. It's archived
: > for three more days. His show this week is on the new Archeophone set,
: > inc. interviews with its producer/engineers. They did a remarkable
: > job, samples of which you'll hear.
: > Sam
: >
: > On 6/1/07, Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
: >> Was anyone ever able to use digital tools and make those recordings 
anything
: >> approaching decent sounding? All I have is the Book of the Month Club
: >> reissue of the the Milestone LP produced by Orrin Keepnews and 
remastered
: >> for BOMC at Fantasy in 1974. The sound quality is so poor that I 
consider it
: >> unlistenable. I understand the limitations of the original source 
material
: >> but wonder if any digi-magic was later invented that improved the 
listening
: >> experience at all?
: >>
: >> The awful-sounding Gennett records were made in 1923. Just 2 years 
later,
: >> Okeh made some decent-sounding Armstrong Hot Fives records in Chicago. 
I
: >> have those on a Columbia reissue LP "The Louis Armstrong Story Vol 1", 
I
: >> seem to have a very late (70s) pressing of this record, which the notes
: >> indicate was issued at the dawn of the LP era, so back in the late 40's 
the
: >> Columbia engineers must have done disk-to-disk transfers, I would guess 
from
: >> Okeh metal parts.
: >>
: >> -- Tom Fine
: >>
: >
: