[78-L] Lenin Speaks

[Michael Biel]

On 12/16/2011 5:10 PM, Steve Shapiro wrote:
> Another friend, who used to be on this list, told me that
> most reissues of these speeches - later 78s, lps, cds, etc.
> - are dubs, with the usual loss of sound quality.

Obviously the LPs and CDs are dubs, but I suppose that you mean that
these were dubbed from the dubbed 78s. 

> For those who have the lp or cd, how "true" does the sound quality seem?

They are average acoustical recordings.  They have all been filtered and
EQed in some fashion, but the CD from around 1987 is truly amazing, and
I suppose that the LP sounds similar.  The recordings are put through an
extreme noise gate.  There      is      ab  so  lute       si  lence    
  be  tween        each     word       and       each        syl  la 
ble         in        each        word.        I      have       never  
   heard        an  y  thing          like        it      .       There 
     must       have       been       an       e  dict       from     
the       Cen  tral       Com  mit  tee        that       So  vi  et    
 C    Ds        will       have        no        noise      .        I  
     bought      my        copy       at       a         So  vi  et     
  Ex   hi  bi  tion       in      Cin  cin   nat   ti       and      
have      ne ver     seen     it     for     sale     a  gain     ev  en
     in       Rus  sia     .

Mike Biel   mbiel at mbiel.com   


>
> There is a story that the speeches were recorded for the Soviet government by a German engineer. There was something about full payment not being given, so some masters stayed with the engineer and some of the recorded speeches were never issued and are probably lost. I am unclear whether the original, issued records might have been pressed by Beka or Odeon, maybe in Germany?
>
> If someone wants to buy my friend's records and is prepared to pay the price, I will help broker the deal./steve
> _________________________________________________________

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