On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 09:39:00 +0000 (GMT), Jim Lesurf
wrote:
In article , Java Jive
wrote:
After some searching I've just found some AC recordings of tracks from
an album that I now have on CD, it's Barbara Dickson's seminal folk
album "From The Beggar's Banquet", 1970. The AC recordings were
originally made from a library copy of the LP, while the CD is a
re-issue of 5 or 6 years ago that I feel most fortunate to have
obtained. The difference between the two is utterly unmistakable.
Alas the LP and CD come into that if you're trying to assess AC.
Particularly if you've not heard the LP for a long time and become
habituated to the AC.
Of course, but equally, I have several digitisations of vinyls of
similar material and sound, digitised on the same deck with the same
cartridge, and they too are way better than these AC recordings. Also,
I have both a commercial AC and a rather worn vinyl of Eddie Walker's
"Red Shoes On My Feet", and, even though worn with a great deal of
needle-in-the-groove noise, the vinyl is otherwise still way better
quality than the AC. From this and many other historical AC
recordings now replaced from better sources, I know that the big
problem with AC is the slow tape-speed, leading to the poor FR, and
the narrowness of the tape which contributes to a generally poor SNR.
FWIW I also routinely find that an LP sounds different to a CD of the
'same' material. The problem being that this may be down to the two
versions being 'mastered' sic quite differently. Can tell you more about
the people cutting the LP or 'improving' sic again what they put on LP
than it does about the frequency response capabilities of either system.
Yes, yes, we've been here several times before, and generally tend to
agree on the topic.
All comes down to how much care and skill were applied when producing the
LP or CD, and to the replay systems.
As I said at the top of this sub-thread, but care can not make up for
the low FR of AC, a constraint arising out of its slow tape-speed.
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