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Posted by Hal Evans on March 21, 2006, 2:52 am, in reply to "Re: Good Old Recordings"
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As I post this, I'm listening to a French Radio transcription service LP of Debussy's Sacred et Profane Dances. And it sounds wonderful. Now then, I have at my whim several processing systems. At the moment, I have a very simple equalizer, which drops rolls off the mid & highs, giving me that warm, friendly 50s era living room sound. My tube (valve to you delightful Brits) is power amplifier feeds a single very high end Tannoy speaker. Back to the EQ: this kind of fiddling with the tone subdues any surface noise very well. A very practical reason for keeping my LPs, is that I have a vast library of them. And it's foolish to dub them to a digital medium. The forecast for digital media is not very good. Digital falls apart down the road. Why? It's a dot to dot medium, not a sine wave medium, like analog. If the dot to dot connection isn't made, the digital medium simply stops working & you can't reclaim it! I'd suggest you digital folks take your CDs and DVD and dub them to analog videotape. It has an incredible signal to noise floor ratio and will pass any audio signal with great ease since it was designed to record video, which has a far, far greater bandwidth than audio, of course. How then, I DO have some CDs and DVDs. Indeed, the audio CDs have great clarity. But I would be an absolute fool to run out and buy performances I already have on LP. Besides, it would be a nightmare to keep track of all this media. Regarding DVDs, they are a nuisance to play, You have to skip along until you find what you want to see. Whereas with a videotape, I can skate through the tape and find PRECISELY where I want to view, freeze frame it, go fetch a cup of coffee, come back and hit play. And voila, voici! There I am. Try that with a DVD! The bloody thing will stop on you, go back to the menu. And you will have to go curse the menu as you go through the maze of functions. Well, we all know how unreliable and stupid this DVD game is. Seek ye VHS first. Besides most movies today are loathsome and not worth paying any money for them. I'm glad I'm old. I've seen the best of movies and the hard the best of music. Thanks! To Life! (Hal Evans)
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