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In the Thread: The contemporary pressing of LP records.
Post Subject: There is no need to blame CD era.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 6/19/2008
 DSH wrote: |
| the era of CD is guilty. LP production was narrowed, digital components replaced analogue in the studios. 20 years is enough to forget HOW. |
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I do not think so. Correct sound reproduction results today are not different, or little different, then they were 50 years ago. There are even today - in the glory of the CD era - the people who do right sound via digital means, so there is no need to blame any specific technologies that comes with one or another recording era. It is people who are guilty. They are the very explicit idiots-people who are responsible for bad sound production and for bad public acceptance. It is very possible that 50 years ago there were much less of them and their “quietly” was much better.
I wonder what driver a cretin why has an access to master tapes to release a LP that sound dozens times inferior then a LP that was released just a few years ago. I am not saying that today pressed LP/CD shell be as good as older tapes (even many of those older tapes mostly are dying nowadays). However, cartridges today are better, electronics today is better, the materials today are better, and the technologies today are better. Why the pressed LPs sound so horrible in such case? I do not think that the people who press and master those new LPs would like to do intentional harm – they most likely would like to do better sound. Thus juts are ignorant morons who must not be where they are at the first place – they just do not know difference. They are like a freaking 16 years-old waiter who was just hired in high-end restaurant who discard customer wish to serve specific wine with specific food just because according to the “extended” mine and understanding of this tanager-waiter “bear is better and all liquids taste the same”. In the today world of audio production there are unfortunately too many of those full of self-pomposity ignorant idiots who in really have very little understanding what they are dealing with. They in many instances run the shows in mastering houses.
How do I know, Well, first of all I know a few of them, not many but few. Second. I see the results – but any of today pressing and you will know the results as well. Third, I made experiments a few years ago I was talking to very famous sound engineers, with medals, reputation and all imaginable industry decorations. I was asking him what his definition of “mastering” was. He was looking at me very superiorly and authoritatively and told me that he with his superior skills could make from any recording something that I “freaking armature” can’t not even dream. Being me, I of course decided to take advantage and to let the person to put his actions behind his words - I gave him a recording to “master”. It was a few years ago and at that time he uses 64-bit mashies running 705.6kHz. Basically they were the machines on which the cinema people run CGI animations. Anyhow, I got back the 88/24 files and it the sound was as nightmarish is it could be in my worst dream.
So, it is people – juts the people who cut today LP and the fool who promote then are idiots and it explains absolutely everything.
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