yes, this is all well known but analog music master tapes are generally more challenging because you cant make perfect copies like you can with digtial tapes and at the same time you don't want to handle them too much either. Safety tapes are often made and used but these all degrade the sound. Degraded original masters and or use of safety tapes instead of the original masters is a common reason why CD reissue mastering is generally poorer than the original LP mastering. Original issue LPs were often mastered not only with the actual original masters, they were also mastered using FRESH original analog masters too which can (but not always) make an audible difference compared to legacy poorly archived master tapes.
-- J.C. O'Connell (mailto:[email protected]) Join the CD PLAYER & DISC Discussions : http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdplayers/ http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdsound/ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rob Studdert Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 6:09 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: OT: Vinyl vs. Digital On 20/11/2009, J.C. O'Connell <[email protected]> wrote: > YOU GUYS are in different domains, RS is talking about > analog music tapes and JM is talking about digital data tapes. The > problems and handing of each is not the same. Obviously, but it's a fact that audio tapes degrade with time, often far faster than their owners would expect, http://www.nfsa.gov.au/preservation/care_audiovisual/care_for_audio.html -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
