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In Reply to: RE: Wow! I remember going to an introductory event when I was a student posted by merdy on October 1, 2019 at 19:20:49:
Thanks for the reminder of Covent Garden Records (in London UK for non locals). I'm still surprised to find it gone every time I pass through Cambridge Circus. They used to have a guy there (Philip Bull?) who later on did modifications to Philips players ( mainly replacing the DAC chip).
My own first experience of CD was when Sony (or a franchisee) opened a dedicated Sony store on Regent Street. After it had been open for some time they cordoned off the back part of the showroom with a glass wall so as to provide an area devoted to CD and to be ready for its public introduction later in the month. I went along on the first or second day. However I already owned one CD which was given to me by my company's staff lawyer after he attended a record industry introduction to the medium. I still have it ( Ockeghem Requiem and a Desprez mass). It has dates of 1973/1977 as no one had yet thought of trying to claim a new period of copyright for an analogue to digital transfer.
I remember that the first disc that I heard at the Sony store was a cello recital. It was ear bendingly awful. I could hardly recognise the instrument. It put me off CD for the next three or so years until a friend with an audio shop offered me a "B" stock Philips player at a price I couldn't refuse. It was the original CD1000 ( hope I got the number correct). Still awful for anything with massed strings. Anyway it eventually turned out that the original cello recital disc that I had heard was pre-emphasised and the CD mastering facility had forgotten to set the de-emphasis flag in the sub codes. No wonder it ripped my ears off.
My first purchased CD was coincidentally on the Philips label; Debussy La Mer/ Colin Davis/LSO. I still have it and actually ripped it to my NAS only a few weeks ago.
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