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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?

A nut, either that or deaf.

You are just making an ass of yourself here Mikey.



While I doubt that
the "worst recorded, worst pressed" LP is really better than a good
CD-or even a cassette tape, there were some incredibly bad albums
out
there in the late 70's-I believe he is much more right than wrong.


It's a free country, you can believe what you want. The fact is that
there
have enough comparisons to the master tape of CD's and LP's showing
that the
CD is indistinguisable from the master.

Really? How many have you made? Looks like you are picking and chosing
your comparisons to fit your belief. There have been quite a few such
comparisons made by the pros with quite the opposite results.

List them.


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.

Then go listen, since he is clearly blowing smoke.
You are making an ass of yourself again.


Everybody I know that has actually copied an LP to a CD has said the same
thing, they are indistinguishable. There have a few right here on RAO and
RAHE that have said the same thing.

I'm always willing to look at other evidence, do you have any?