Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/06/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com> wrote: > It's interesting that digital technology does not cut it when > extracting the info from very old recordings. The best way > is to actually PLAY the record so it goes THOUGH the > horn attached to the needle and mike THAT for a few feet > away. No other way (yet) of making it sound as good and > it sounds quite good. No algorithm for that horn! A Very > satisfying listen much of that old stuff from the turn of the > century. After Sony/CBS released a revised version (from "newly discovered sources") of their Robert Johnson double CD set a few years ago (classic acoustic blues from the mid/late 1930s, for those of you not familiar with RJ) a record collector acquaintance played me a cassette tape copy of some of the same material. He had recorded it exactly as Mark describes from original 78s in his collection. My CDs have fewer clicks & pops & whatnot but that tape had a musical presence the discs utterly lack. For the Louis Armstrong fans among us there's a four-disc set of the Hot Fives & Sevens recordings (mid-to-late 1920s) available on the JSP label. Excellent sound quality...I believe it was also transfered to digital format via mic'd horn. Skip the thin-sounding Columbia version and get this one instead. - -Dave-