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RJH wrote:
I've had the joy of listening to the live sound in the control room
where it's being balanced/recorded. Only a good digital recording
comes close to that. Analogue tape never did, and any form of disc
recording a very poor second.


Wouldn't a recording be 'going through' the tape, like on a 3 head
cassette deck? No idea, perhaps not.

If what you say is the general case, it does make me wonder how much
better all the analogue recordings could have been. As things stand, I'm
very happy with a lot of my pre-70s music's sound quality. More so than
a lot of recent stuff.

Very true. But getting pleasure from any recording is not just down to how
good the 'specs' of that recording are. Plus if you first heard it warts
and all and loved it, hearing it with the warts removed can spoil it for
you.

I still play LPs on occasion. And enjoy them.

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