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Re: [ARSCLIST] Pristine Audio (?!)
I suspect there may be a source problem. It's likely that Pristine had the
78s of the classical material and was working from a copy of the blues
items. That might account for the differences of opinion.
Steve Smolian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Phillips" <scottp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 2:00 AM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Pristine Audio (?!)
I vote for Tom Fine's opinion.... although I have to qualify it as I
don't know how bad the raw file sounded like before processing. I do
have a reasonably state of the art computer sound system. Again, one
man's opinion.
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Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 9:18 PM
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Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Pristine Audio (?!)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Fine" <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
That sample track of Robert Johnson is full of digital hash in the
treble,
especially around the
slide guitar but also the upper notes of the voice. It sounds very
bad, to my
ears. I'll take the
record surface noise in the early 90's Sony reissue set over the
digital hash
any day. One man's
opinion ...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Graeme Jaye" <graemejaye@xxxxxxxxx>
> Hi Steven
> On 03/12/2007 you wrote;
> SCBx> Is anyone out there familiar with Andrew Rose...Pristine
Audio...
> SCBx> or their restoration process? Is it really as good as he/they
say(s)?
> Yes - I know Andrew (we are in the same line of business) and he has
> done some remarkable restoration work, particularly on early
material.
> He gets some amazing results. He was also the man who uncovered the
> Hatto scandal.
> If you haven't already done so, have a listen to the sample track he
> has posted on his site, I know you will be impressed.
>
Well...that gives me two conflicting opinions...?! I couldn't tell much
from the available samples...partly because my PC's sound system is
several miles north of "state of the art"...and partly because 65 years
of abuse and a couple of major head injuries have left me with only
fragments of the hearing I once had (which may be why I find that
listening to 78's as such to be quite adequate...?!).
Steven C. Barr
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