ralphpnj wrote: > For anything recorded since the beginning of the stereo era (about the > mid 1950s) it's not the age of the recording but rather the quality of > the recording that matters. There are plenty of recordings from the > 1950s and 1960s which sound as good as anything recorded today. For > example Miles Davis' "kind of Blue" is very well recorded and compares > favorably with most "modern" recordings.
Yes , i agree completely but that was not the kind of quality i meant , the quality of excellent studio work is everlasting :) But rather if you teleported a modern equipment back in time and hid inside the equipment they used , would you not get something with less noise ( you can hear noise cant you ) and more extended frequency response in both bass and treble ? And these recording has a certain tone to them don't you think , this is the "flavour" of the vintage equipment or you could call it distortion . I'm after the technical quality of the raw signal something 30hz - 15kHz -70dB s/n does not take 24/192 to encode ( 0Hz - 96kHz -144dB s/n) . As discussed you hear the limitations of the equipment of the era in early multi tracking and other sound layering and effect passes . What happens is that one iteration trough one of these vintage tape machines is ok but it quickly detoriates trough generational losses mostly added noise , that tells you something of these machines . And yes it is completely possible to have completely horrible recordings with perfect " technical quality " :) The studio work and artistry can be hideous but in perfect 24/192 quality . I rather see "sound of music" or any other technicolor flick than an IMAX rendering of the city dump even if one of them have higher intrisinic technical quality ? And they knew what they did back then they rather used the limitations artistically tape (machine saturation ) etc and knew to make it work for the music , you can hear on voice recordings that special tone ,probably due the microphones used . But these recordings sounded better than delivery format of the era the LP . What I've also learned is that they knew that the LP would never sound the same as the master so they tweaked it a bit so when cutting it it would come out more pleasant in the end product . Therefore a "LP master tape" migth not be the best choice for remastering . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97950 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
