[78-L] 78 playback (was) CEDAR VS SONNOX

[Jeff Sultanof]

Doug,

By all means toot your own horn. Your work is exemplary. As a matter of
fact, I wish I was producing a project so that I could be there when you do
the transfers and pick your brain (with your permission of course). And yes,
I know what you say is true about transferring from metal as I've seen and
heard this firsthand when I was in the publishing business full-time.

Once upon a time, there was a turntable that I believe was developed in
Japan where the grooves were read by a laser. The idea seems to have
incredible potential in my opinion, as it can isolate and read any part of
the groove. And yet I understood that this turntable was discontinued and no
one has seen fit to further develop this approach to remastering older
sources. Can you enlighten me?

Many thanks,
Jeff Sultanof

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Doug Pomeroy <pomeroyaudio at att.net> wrote:

> The metals of several record companies are stored underground
> in the Iron Mountain storage facility in Boyers, Pennsylvania.
>
> Some CD reissues ARE made from 78 metal parts.
> When I engineering reissues for BMG, I was given access to "anything
> in the vault", and I always requested _everything_ so that I could
> compare
> the quality of all the sources available.
>
> It is possible that when BMG was making its own transfers, their
> engineers
> simply used old vinyl pressings or tape copies of questionable
> quality because
> playing the metals is more of a chore!
>
> The audio quality from a metal part in good condition, well transferred,
> is a revelation to anyone who grew up listening to reissues of 78s on
> vinyl!
>
> I've worked extensively with metal parts from Victor, Decca and Stinson.
> Not to blow my own horn, but the resulting reissues have been very well
> received - the Bix Beiderbecke set on Mosaic and the Woody Guthrie set
> on Rounder especially so.
>
> I certainly agree we have not yet reached the ultimate goal of making
> the "best
> possible" transfers.  For one thing, I feel we need a lateral-
> tracking arm designed
> specifically for playing coarse-groove recordings, and nobody has
> undertaken
> this as far as I know.
>
> Doug Pomeroy
> POMEROY AUDIO
> Audio Restoration & Mastering Services
> Transfers of metal masters, lacquers,
> shellac and vinyl discs & tapes.
> 193 Baltic St
> Brooklyn, NY 11201-6173
> (718) 855-2650
> pomeroyaudio at att.net
>
> ========================================================
>
> > Date:    Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:13:31 -0500
> > From:    Clark Johnsen <clarkjohnsen at GMAIL.COM>
> > Subject: Re: CEDAR V SONNOX
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Paul G Turney
> > <paul at sirensound.com> wrote:
> >
> <SNIP>
>
> > Where are all the masters?
> >
> >
> > The very question I've been asking for over twenty years. Not to
> > neglect
> > that there are various levels of masters.
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