[78-L] Silence (no 78 hiss) on CD issues

[Royal Pemberton]

I'm with you, if they take the noise down but don't destroy the integrity
and frequency response of the original recording in the process, OK!

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:26 AM, simmonssomer <simmonssomer at comcast.net>wrote:

> The world is full of <deleteds>. I have several in my own family.
> However...as long as they do not alter the highs and lows and maintain the
> same dynamic (dB)characteristics of the 78
> I don't miss the hiss.
> Sometimes the surface hiss masks the  the vocalist's glottal hiss on
> transcriptions and ffrr's, for example..
>
> Al Simmons
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steven C. Barr" <stevenc at interlinks.net>
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 1:33 AM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Silence (no 78 hiss) on CD issues
>
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Robert M. Bratcher Jr." <bratcher at pdq.net>
> >> At 09:29 PM 2/4/2010, you wrote:
> >>>I remember a Golden Gate Quartet CD on Sony that had that same "too much
> >>>silence" effect.
> >> Then why do they kill the hiss on CD reissues of old 78 rpm
> >> recordings? It's silly to alter an old recording like that.......
> >>
> > Because the <deleteds> that run "record" companies assume that ALL CD
> > buyers
> > want the "NO SURFACE NOISE" (supposed) advantage of CD's over analog
> > records...?!
> >
> > Steven C. Barr
>
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