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"Arny Krueger" wrote:

"Harry Lavo" wrote in message

"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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"Steven Sullivan" wrote in message

Harry Lavo wrote:

"Jenn" wrote in message
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I've heard good analogue tapes (two of the 50s and 60s
original Mercury master tapes, for example) but never
in a home audio setting. I'd like to try to borrow a
good Revox or similar and hear an excellent analogue
master tape and see if I perceive the timbre issue to
be similar to LP. That would help to determine if what
I like about LP sound is due to colorations inherent
to LPs.

Well assuming you could get the appropriate and
calibrated Dolby A setup, I think you'd be blown away
by how analogue tape takes that "LP sound" and raises
it to six no-trump.

How excellent, then, that by doing a good digital
transfer of that tape, one can capture that six no-trump
sound and protect it from degradation.

Exactly. She's really exposed herself this time. The
worst thing that can be said about CDs is that they may
accurately reflect master tapes, which the LP never
could do. Jenn has revealed that she has no clue as to what master
tapes are really all about, or how they relate to her
obsession with the non-existent realism of LPs.

She's also beginning to expose the fact that she has no
idea about how recording and reproduction are actually
supposed to work.

Pure BS Arny. Jenn has said she prefers really good LP's
over most CD's, because to her ears instrumental timbres
sound "more real".

You forgot about the part about Jenn's opinion being oh-so-credible and
applicable to the rest of us peons because she's this great symphony
conductor.

See another post by me made a bit earlier tonight.


A lot of audiophiles agree with her.

Percentage-wise its about zip and shrinking. I notice that the heavy-LP used
disc dealer near me has cut his floorspace by 50%, as have others around
town. Sony tuned their SACD pitch to capture the LP bigot market, and now
SACD is failing to grow, verging on fading.

She has said nothing about overall accuracy or about
master tapes or about recording.

Yup, "instrumental timbres sound more real" has nothing to do with accuracy.
And if you believe that, I've got this bridge over the Detroit River you
want to buy... ;_)

These are simply strawman inventions of yours.

Even Jenn admits that she has special listening powers because of her trade.
I agree with that at its core, its just that her skills aren't as global as
she's been misinformed to believe.