Re: [ARSCLIST] Pristine Audio and the Milllennials . . .

[Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If someone can provide me with CD or transfer audio of a source, I'd be happy to make files showing 
the effects of various tape media.

I agree that this would be a great ARSC seminar.

Perhaps also useful would be the following:

1. a similar comparison with some pure sine and square waves, showing what distortions are inherent 
to each type of media. Including, by the way, brickwall frequency limiting in the CD format.

2. a similar comparison with a very high-fidelity source, preferably a high-resolution digital 
original source made in a good acoustic space with minimal mic'ing and little if any sonic 
"production" after the fact. In this case, I would start with the high-resolution source file, then 
perhaps a digitally-downsampled CD, then perhaps a CD made from an excellent D-A/A-D chain to show 
what if any differences there are in the two techniques. The compare to various analog media, 
starting with late-era tape 1/2" 30IPS master and going down from there. This might be a costly 
bunch of demo media to cook up, but it sure would be an interesting comparison.

By the way, any comparison like I'm describing is somewhat controversial because conclusions are 
highly subjective. But I think it's very informative and at least provides some reference for people 
new to the field. Playback would be through as uniform and transparent a system as possible and I 
would suggest that both sound and an oscilloscope image be the type of demonstration (ie sound and 
image).

-- Tom Fine

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Dnjchi@xxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 6:47 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Pristine Audio and the Milllennials . . .


> In a message dated 12/7/2007 6:00:39 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
> Play  back the electronic sources through a decent but doesn't have to be
> great  system, but don't
> change the amplifier and speakers, and see if you can  keep the overall
> volume about equal. The
> differences should be pretty  clear and it would be interesting to see how
> the younger folks describe
> them. This might diverge too far away from the history of music, but one
> could argue that the
> technology used to record and reproduce the music is  integral to how it was
> perceived and absorbed
> by listeners.
>
> -- Tom  Fine
>
>
>
> Again, this would be an interesting seminar at an ARSC meeting, especially
> for novice archivists.
>
> Don Chichester
>
>
>
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