On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 11:26:19 +0100, Kurt Hamster
wrote:

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 17:56:01 +0000 (UTC), Stewart Pinkerton used
to say...

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 09:40:00 +0100, Kurt Hamster
wrote:

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 06:05:58 +0000 (UTC), Stewart Pinkerton used
to say...

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 22:44:07 +0100, "Keith G"
wrote:

No, you still don't *geddit* do you? - I'm an 'end user', I'm only
interested in what comes OUT of my speakers......

Me too - and I like it to bear the closest possible relationship to
what was on the master tape...............

Would that be the master tape you'd never get to see, much less hear
(and be able to compare too)?

Well, I do have a Nagra and a CD burner.......................

And?

I have access to a full Protools setup as well as the studio of one of
Britain's foremost TV music composers, but I still don't have access to
the master tape of Chris Rea's 'Road To Hell'.

Your point being?

That I can *make* 15 ips analogue master tapes, and compare them
directly to CD-Rs of those tapes.

Perhaps the music industry should have a scheme where audio engineering
zealots (geeks?) should be allowed to borrow the master tapes of any CD
they buy so that said anal retentive zealots can sleep comfortably at
night?

It's not exactly rocket science, short rodent.

That's because it isn't rocket science, exact or otherwise.

This master tape ******** is just people like yourself wanking off over
spec sheets.

Nope, it's real audiophiles who care about high fidelity sound
reproduction, *listening* to master tapes and CDs made from them.
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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering