On 11 Mar 2006 00:03:06 GMT, "Harry Lavo" wrote:
"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
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On 10 Mar 2006 00:58:41 GMT, wrote:
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4. The presumption that the chosen master tape best represents
the artists' intentions despite the fact that LP test pressings were so
often the final arbitrator of artist intentions.
We're talking about CD master tapes here. In fact, you make the very
point that the 'objectivists' make about vinyl - you *need* test
pressings because there's no way that you can get the sound of the
mixdown master onto vinyl! Compare and conrast with CD.
I hate to burst your bubble, Stewart, but many artists, producers,
engineers, and companies that care about sound quality REQUEST hearing one
of the CD production masters after the manufacturing facility has made them,
because in their experience things can go wrong (particularly jitter) and
they want to make sure the masters sound as good as they expect them to.
They will compare them to a copy of the source material they have sent for
the production mastering. Sometimes several rounds are required to "get it
right".
IOW, they want a competently produced CD which sounds just like the
master tape, and that's what they get. Thanks for that, Harry.
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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering