Re: [ARSCLIST] Aren't recordings original sources?

[Robert J Hodge <rjhodge@xxxxxxx>]

And I still consider Anthony Griffith's transfers for HMV- especially
Sir Edward Elgar's performances reissued on LP, to be first class! 

Without Exception, And Second To None!

Unflinchingly Yours,

Bob Hodge




-----Original Message-----
From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List
[mailto:ARSCLIST@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Don Cox
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 4:21 PM
To: ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Aren't recordings original sources?

On 20/10/08, Clark Johnsen wrote:

> 
> Quite so. But in my view there was another, earlier golden age,
> roughly 1928-1936. Many of those records sound superb, when rightly
> reproduced -- such as they never have been, in my experience, either
> on LP or CD.
> 
The transfers of jazz recordings from that period done by JRT Davies for
labels such as Frog, Hep, and Retrieval sound superb on my equipment.
Especially the Victors.

I haven't heard quite such good transfers of any classical material,
although Andrew Walter at EMI has done a few very good ones recently for
the "Great Recordings of the Century" series.

Regards
-- 
Don Cox
doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx