"Julian Fowler" wrote in message
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On 22 Jul 2003 13:05:13 GMT, ohawker (Andy
Evans) wrote:

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* the LPs of 40 years ago were made on using technology that can only
be considered crude by today's standards, and they were made to be
played using equipment that, in most cases, would be put to shame by a
contemporary no-name mini system (I still recall my father's delight
at having his Decca record player retrofitted w/ a stereo cartridge,
one channel of which went through the original amp and (built-in)
speaker, the other to a matching box w/ a second amp and speaker). If
40 year old recordings sound poor on modern equipment, maybe that's
because the latter does all too good a job of revealing the
inadequacies of the former.
Julian

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Julian Fowler
julian (at) bellevue-barn (dot) org (dot) uk

My 'reference' recordings are an old Louis Armstrong LP (50s I think) and an
original of Let it Bleed (66?). The quality (as well as the music let's not
forget!) is superb. Much of the late beatles stuff is pretty hq IMHO (cd and
LP). I bought a few remastered Hendrix cds a couple of years ago and the
quality compared to the record is diabolical - compressed and flat. They
must have got something right 40 years ago after all, at least to my mind.

Don't know about all the valve stuff I'm afraid. Don't understand the
technical bits and never had the opportunity to listen. But if nothing else
it's made me think that there might be something in it after all given the
'passion' here ;-)

Rob