On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 15:28:17 -0400, "Arny Krueger"
wrote:

"ansermetniac" wrote in message

As a designer of the highest quality of sax mouthpieces(I am the
acoustician and manufacturing engineer , my partner the mechanical
engineer) it appals me that CDs are eqd so badly. SO much so that
Digital is given the bad rap and not the incompetent mastering
engineers . These engineers have been listening to recorded music for
so long they haven't a clue as to what instruments realy sound like.

Perhaps. These days music is made to sell to people who probably fit your
description better than the engineers do.

I offer mp3s of the week of rare classical records and concerts
remastered by me in sound that does not have the juiced mids and highs
of lps and CDs.

And the URL for downloading is??
http://members.aol.com/abbedd/abbedd


In response to my equipment

Fisher 500C
Bozak Rhapsodys(I don't have the large room needed for my Symphonies
at this time)

a member of the rec.music.classical.recording group said

1) Fisher never made a good receiver

Seems more than a little bigoted.

2) Bozaks are antequated.

Indeed. While there are speakers of the 60s era that are not thoroughly
anteguated (e.g. Quad 57s), most are. Lots of good things have happened with
speaker technology in the last 40 years. Arguably speakers weren't even
designed, but rather cut-and-tried until about 25 years ago.

If modern speakers are to be judged by B & W 802s then you can have
them HP and I still prefer AR 2as

Abbedd

This person is Tom Deacon the executive producer of the entire Great
Pianists of the century set from Phillips(They licensed from
everybody)

He's probabably something like half right. I was about 16 when I was selling
Fisher 500Cs, and I'm now pushing 60. The basic design of the 500C would be
called "mid fi" by modern standards. That's not utter damnation but its not
the best that could have been done with the technology at hand in the day..
Without steady mantenance, a 500C would probably be pretty sorry if it were
in continuous use (or even storage) for the past 45 years or so.

I guess I'd have to listen to the 500C with appropriate speakers before
making a final judgement.

I am not sure whether CDs sound the way they do to please the masses
or because of incompetence.

Pleasing the masses is the better explanation.

With statements like the above I lean
toward incompetence. How else could Bill Inglot become tops in his
field His R n R stuff is abominable but did you hear his Jazz for
Atlantic. Giant Steps of mids and highs. Not Trane

IME recordings of the 50s and the 60s have held their sheen a lot better
than the home audio gear of that time.