[78-L] Let's hear it for the flat earthers

[Steve Williams]

Yes Lebrecht is insufferably condescending, and mostly ignorant, but
strangely he does make one point which I believe to be valid, once you get
past the trash-talking..

He does say that he could not tell the difference between an analogue and
digital master of a classical performance, so he is at least admitting that
analogue in itself is not inferior,.. the main part of his thesis is that
LPs are so inferior to CDs, which is not true, BUT, practically playing
Devil's Advocate, he goes on to say that the REASON listeners are switching
back to LPs is that DOWNLOADS of MP3s are becoming a dominant means of
obtaining material, and that listeners are being chased back to Analogue
because these compressed downloads sound so bad, and modern listeners equate
downloaded digital with ALL forms of digital recording.

With this I have to agree.. No, records are not as bad as Mr. Lebrecht
describes, but compressed digital IS.

Steve Williams  ..

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From: Don Cox <doncox at enterprise.net> Hello David
> If it's written by Lebrecht, I would prefer not to read it.
> Regards-- Don Cox  doncox at enterprise.net

I read it because Lebrecht mentioned me in one of his books -- not by name,
of course, just referred to me as a professor or scholar who discovered the
alternate take aspect of Rach's Rach 2. He also was
convicted of libeling the owner of Naxos, one of dl's employers.   And
everything dl says about Lebrecht is confirmed in this piece.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

On 28/04/2012, David Lennick wrote:
>> I've said it before and I'll say it again..NORMAN LEBRECHT IS A MORON.
>> Also an idiot and a cretin and a dolt and an imbecile and the most 
>> uninformed music critic whose writings I've ever thrown across the 
>> room. I may say it several more times. But anyway, read this.
>> 
>> http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/node/4433/full   dl