On Mon, 7 Nov 2011 10:53:33 -0000, "Max Demian"
wrote:
"Bill Wright" wrote in message
...
When FM radio became popular I remember people (especially my grandad)
complaining bitterly that the sound was 'uncanny'! He used many other
words and phrases, all of which meant 'realistic' but with a negative
bias. "It doesn't sound like a bloody wireless, that's the trouble with
it!" He didn't have a telly, I should add. He always listened to AM after
the first few weeks. Oddly, he was a bander and attended many concerts.
Digital reproduction often shows up deficiencies in the original recording
that are masked by analogue technology.
Yes. Because I've been, for the obvious reasons described in my OP,
on the look out for distortion, particularly over the extremes of the
arm's swing during the first and last two tracks, needless to say I've
been hearing it everywhere. However, comparing the before and after
recordings, and sometimes when unsure putting the vinyl on the
Project, has nearly always shown that the distortion was there on the
vinyl all along.
Both the live recordings of The Dubliners had quite a lot of it (a
difficult band to mix live, I would guess), which in the case of the
conical one misled me for a while. Many other vinyls had it as well,
particularly those done on cheap folk labels, regardless of whether
they were UK or US labels.
However, I single out Topic for the superior quality of their folk
recordings. The House Band and the Sea Shanties LPs sound marvellous
now they've been cleaned. On both, particularly dramatically on the
latter where the needle was formerly jumping out of the groove,
several 'scratches' turned out to have been grit or the like and have
been completely washed away.
For example "Bright Eyes" by Art Garfunkel sounds distinctly distorted in
places: http://www.countrydecor.altervista.org/brighteyes.mp3
For example the vocal from 1:20. The vinyl sounds OK unless sensitised by
listening to the digital version first.
Actually the most obvious deficiency in that is the 'glass birdies'
sound introduced by the low bitrate. I think I can hear what you are
describing, but what I hear is in the background, rather than the
foreground, so not obvious at all.
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