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RE: Here in lies the problem

"Are Decca, Phillips, Duetsche Grammphone, EMI, and others not acceptable?"


For certain genres of classical music, some of these labels do not provide acceptable sound quality, IMO. One of the worst examples is the orchestral recordings from DG. This are multiple miked and have no sound stage or depth. The label has been on my "do not buy list" for decades. Surprisingly the affliated Arkiv label has much better sound, perhaps related to the smaller ensembles. DG chamber music and solo instrument recordings can have good sound and I continue to buy these recordings.

EMI has done some recent restorations of older analog recordings. These were transferred at 96/24. After I learned this I knew the transfers were not going to be top rate. My issue wasn't with the format itself, it was with the standard of engineering involved. If the engineers were first rate they would know that they were wasting their time to be doing remasters of master tapes using 96/24 format. Either they were incompetent or they were being directed by bean counters. I bought some of these remasters of historic recordings and my low expectations of sound quality were met.

Even granting that sound quality is 99% engineering and only 1% format and equipment, the fact is that the best engineers are using the best equipment and formats.


Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar

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