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In the Thread: The Nimbus' Prima Voce bindles?

Post Subject: 78 RPM and perspectivePosted by twogoodears on: 2/15/2010

Roman:
interesting point of view and alternative to Nimbus' approach. It's my opinion the people at Nimbus wanted to enhance and replicate a better gramophone-like rendition of the classic vocal and instrumental performance of decades ago...

In their literature they strongly bring whole attention to the 78 RPM as both a media and a goal - i.e. the best ever reproduction of these old musical fossils - with utmost attention to the most correct cutting speed and the like.

I remember a picture of Toscanini in NYC in front of a captating large horn feeding a cutting needle and a lathe similar to the link here below... seems to me Nimbus tried a reverse process to this, so, in perspective, more related to the way as 78 rpm recording was cutted - with all that bandwidth limits and limitations - than (too bad...) to the performance itself. http://twogoodears.blogspot.com/2010/02/acoustic-recording.html

Makes honour to Nimbus having approached those worthwhile, otherwise lost or hidden musical and sonic heritage in a maybe flawed way, but using classy gears and not penny-pinchers digital "X-tool" programs, thus destroying the music zestness in the name of a noise-free lifeless-ness.

The result, also to the in-a-hurry listener, is - at least - interesting.

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