"jakdedert" wrote in message
MiNe 109 wrote:
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Finally, after doing this a hundred times or so I have
to observe that the audio quality of the run of the
mill vinyl from that era was pretty bad. It got a lot
better starting in mid-1969, probably because a new
generation of disc cutters was just coming on line.
I find
incomprehensible the affection that some people
evidently have for the audio quality of vinyl from
that era. Bob Orban
Who is Robert Orban?
Nice appeal to authority. Was someone arguing in favor
of damaged, poor-quality vinyl?
I dunno. I didn't read the thread which provoked the
above.
You can find it he
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.a...b8d154c20e0ebf
My experience in the 60's/70's was that the vast
majority of vinyl records (the only kind available, of
course) were real crap, quality wise.
In the US, particularly true. I spent a year in Germany near the end of the
60s and the quality of LPs was considerably better over there. But the
inherent limitations of the LP format still intruded, big time.
If one wanted a
quiet, clean copy of a given suite of music, it was
necessary to buy multiple copies and transfer immediately
to tape.
Hence my Revox A-77 in the day.
I never--repeat, NEVER--heard a completely
pop-free album in my entire life...and I was a dealer.
Even the enhanced quality of european pressings didn't totally erase that
problem.
Still, there is that nostalgia for the 'good ol' days'
that persists and grows.
I think that in the end, it will be yet another boomer thing that dies with
that generation.