On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 06:33:18 -0500, "Arny Krueger"
wrote:

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Walter Sear, however, is trying to make it better.

From a recent interview:

Q. Over the years Sear Sound has been in three different locations-16
or 17 years each in two of the cases. What's motivated you to survive
these and more recent changes in the industry, such as the rise of
digital recording and home studios?

A: The idea that we can make it better, but that the rest of the word
is fighting me and trying to make it worse. And it is. The music
delivery system for the last 19 years has been far worse than the old
vinyl discs. I ran a seminar at AES a few years ago, I found an LP and
a CD-same material, same master tape, same mastering engineer. I put
them on simultaneously ad we cross faded back and forth. At the end, I
said, how many like this? 150 engineers' hands went up. How many like
this? And zero hands went up. It's shooting fish in a barrel. Anytime
you A/B even the worst recorded, worst pressed LP and compare it to
any CD, there is instantly (a difference), just like with vacuum tube
mic pre's.

Is Walter Sear a nut or is he essentially correct?

He's nuts. He says crazy things like "the worst recorded, worst pressed LP"
is preferable to the best CD.

That's your opinion, Arnold. After all of your ignorant preference
bashing, we all know how to take that opinion.

But you're just here for fun, right?

BTW, there *is* a physical tape, whether Sander knows about it or not.