"R" wrote in message
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Walter Sear, however, is trying to make it better.

And his work proves it, in my opinion. When the anti-analog, antitube
zealots can produce the quality of work Mr.Sear, 73, a former tuba
player, does, I will be more motivated to listen.



Please explain how it came to be that when the Mercury Living Presence
recordings were to be re-released on CD, no one could tell the difference
between the master tapes and the CD in a blind AB test.

http://www.themusiclab.net/aespaper.pdf

"After completing the masters for the first ten releases on CD, we decided
to
set up listening sessions for the press at the Edison Studios. This would
give them the ability to A/B the manufactured CD's with the original
recordings for direct comparison. On June 21, 1990, representatives of the
major audio magazines and the audiophile press gathered at the PolyGram
Studios in Edison, New Jersey. After two separate sessions of blind A/B
comparisons between the CD reissues and the original master tapes, these
critical listeners were unable to consistently identify the source."

Now that these recordings are available on SACD, they can do one thing
that
is quite impossible for an LP or a CD to do and that is to reproduce the
sound that is in the center channel. This discrete center channel was how
it
was originally recorded so many years ago.

r


--
Nothing beats the bandwidth of a station wagon filled with DLT tapes.


Is that the sound of Cal's balloon being popped?