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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:32:47 EST
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- From: Ken Koester <MAINT2@ERS.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: Vinyl vs Tape vs. CD vs...
- In-Reply-To: Message of Fri, 18 Dec 1992 08:56:43 CST from <ISTS024@UABDPO>
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- On Fri, 18 Dec 1992 08:56:43 CST Leonard Watkins said:
- >On Fri, 18 Dec 1992 09:43:16 EST Scott Hammer said:
- >>>
- >>Some artists (Bonnie Raitt comes immediately to mind) have taken to doing the
- >>actual recording in analog (i.e. ADD) for this very reason. Apparently, they
- >>feel that the noise that analog equipment introduces produces a "warmer"
- >>ambience in the recording.
- >
- >IMHO analog recording is by far the best sound, i waited until Alligator
- >stopped making vinyl b4 buying a cd player, because it all sounded cold
- >CD's have thier advantages but warmth is not one of them. I remember a revue
- >in Audiophile magazine and the reveiwer was asked to reveiw the Hendrix Ryko
- >Albums, he refused until Ryko made it available on vinyl, which they
- >eventually did and of course they don't any longer......L.W.
-
- I am not sure what anyone means by "warmth" in a recording, but if I did, I
- assume I would like my music cold as a. . . well, cold. Cold as I like B&W
- photography: cold tones so sharp and clear they cut like the finest
- Damascene steel, leaving out not the slightest detail, as opposed to some
- warm muddy sepia-toned slop looking like mush. And in the case of music,
- sounding like it to boot. It is clear to me when I listen to vinyl, no matter
- how well done, that I am not listening to a live sound. It is considerably
- less clear to me that this is the case when I listen to quality CDs.
-
- Which is my last contribution to this aimiable wangle. That, and to point
- out that vinyl is dead, gone: no amount of wailing will bring it back.
-