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RE: that's a stupid rule

Of course you can prefer one thing to another. I have the Mozart Requiem with Colin Davis conducting the BBC SO and the John Alldis Choir on LP and CD. I prefer the CD version. Of course, this is a sighted preference. There is nothing wrong forming preferences based on sighted listening. I have not tried to do a blind test to establish my preference is based on the sound alone.

It can go the other way, of course. I have the set of Sibelius Symphonies with Lorin Maazel conducting the VPO on CD. I have some of them on LP, and the LP versions, which sound better to me. I quite enjoy the CD versions, nevertheless. I have not bothered to do a blind test to see if my preference is based on the sound alone.

On LP, I have recordings of the Debussy and Ravel String Quartets with the old Chicago Fine Arts Quartet. I have great recordings of them on CD by the Quartetto Italiano. I prefer the recordings with the Fine Arts Quartet. I have not established those preferences under blind conditions, which would be very difficult, since I am pretty sure I could tell when the LP was playing.


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