"Laurence Payne" wrote in message
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On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:58:26 +0200, "Iain Churches"
wrote:

As I understand it from John Atkinson, (formerly of EMI
Abbey Road and currently editor of Stereophile) Arny
posted Domine to a pro group as an example of his skills,
when his claim to be a professional recording engineer
was challenged by so many people.

Yeah, well don't worry too much about things said between
Arny and J.A. That's a long-standing feud. If you know
Stereophile and its audiophool attitudes you may well
side with Arny on this one :-)

Iain is totally enamoured of JA, if you somehow can't discern this from the
snippet above. Iain is also totally enamoured of anybody who will criticize
me. Looks to me like you're on your way to becoming one of his good friends,
Laurence.

Trouble is, for me the recording is the music, the music
is the recording. I find it very hard to hear a bad
performance as anything other than a bad recording.
Maybe some people can divorce the two. Maybe such people
shouldn't be involved in recording music. I don't know.

Good example of how you have your head where the sun shines not, Laurence.
God help anybody who does not do music at the level you imagine that you are
at. Of course, you don't believe in God and have often expressed your
resentment towards people who do. So take it as a figure of speech.

It's a high school chorus recorded in a nearly-empty high school auditorium.
It's quite clear that you would deny the people involved with performances
like this, the benefits of a recording like this that they can use for the
purposes of instruction, or sentimentality. It *is* a pretty good replica of
what they sounded like at the judge's seats at the time.

It's dirty work, but it seems like somebody has to do it if for no reason
other than the fact that it helps people be instructed and appreciate music.