Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site hound.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!hound!rfg From: rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: Analogue Masters X-ferred to CD Message-ID: <1324@hound.UUCP> Date: Sun, 25-Aug-85 01:10:50 EDT Article-I.D.: hound.1324 Posted: Sun Aug 25 01:10:50 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 26-Aug-85 01:06:53 EDT References: <465@olivee.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 23 [] Bravo, Mr. Paley, well said. I look at it this way. Most really good masters were made on superior equipment - like 15 or 30 ips tape. If I can get that quality level in my home, I think it will probably be ok. Especially now that most (well, many) ((well, some)) engineers are beginning to get the hang of how to "cut" a digital recording without doing something horribly wrong. I have found "live" cassette quality to be perfectly satisfactory, except for a bit of hiss, although even that is gone with some of the newer formulations and good equipment. By live, I mean original redcordings I made myself on location. Now, the tape masters in industry are usually better than that, although only now can they get that level transferred to my home. So far, the tape mastered stuff I have is great ...only why is there that damn bass thumping in Rheingold? Surely they could/should have eliminated that. I haven't checked my disc copy but I'm pretty sure it wasn't there. Somehow it must have gotten in in the remastering process, but that doesn't make sense... -- "It's the thought, if any, that counts!" Dick Grantges hound!rfg