torstai 12. lokakuuta 2017 2.46.46 UTC+3 Dave Plowman (News) kirjoitti:
In article ,
Woody wrote:
Clearly you have never had the joy of listening to a direct cut disc
played on a good turntable with a moving coil cartridge into any sort
of reasonable system. It is a really something to behold.

I've had the joy of listening to the live sound in the control room where
it's being balanced/recorded.

Listening to the live sound is indeed a joy.

Actually recording the sound is an even greater joy. The feeling of elation when you pull down the stereo fader as the reverb dies away on a fine performance is difficult to describe.

You may have not had the same opportunity Dave, but at Decca, trainee engineers were encouraged to spend the first part of a classical session sitting in the studio, "soaking up the live" sound". We had three chairs behind the conductor's podium just under the Decca tree. It was then interesting to go to the control and hear what was coming from the monitors.

Only a good digital recording comes close to
that. Analogue tape never did, (snip)

Really?

I have a CD which I made up as my "show reel" which contains baroque compositions by Henry Purcell and Thomas Arne. Most were digital recordings which I have made over the years for Decca, Argo, L'Oiseau Lyre and RCA but a few were analogue Dolby SR. No one who has listened to them has ever been able to say with certainty which were which.

Iain