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

[David Lennick]

You got it. He actually did have a valid point there (not the one his hat 
covers) or I wouldn't have passed his ramblings on to the group.

dl

On 4/29/2012 9:05 AM, Steve Williams wrote:
> 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..
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> 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.
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> With this I have to agree.. No, records are not as bad as Mr. Lebrecht
> describes, but compressed digital IS.
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> Steve Williams  ..
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> Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 12:07:07 -0700
> From: "Michael Biel"<mbiel at mbiel.com>
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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
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> 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
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> 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
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