[78-L] Soundstream Caruso sources.

[Michael Shoshani]

On 02/28/2013 12:30 PM, Ryan Wolfe wrote:
> The Caruso subjects here have led to something that I have long been wondering about.
>
> What were the  sources used for the bulk of the Victor material in the 1976 Thomas Stockham / Soundstream restorations?
>
>   I've heard  that they used metal masters and I've heard that they  just used regular commercial pressings.   The CD box set claims 'Original Victor Talking Machine Co. Master Recordings.'
>


One would presume that even in the various purgings of metal parts over 
the decades that Victor and successors would have kept and preserved any 
metals they had from Caruso. And if they didn't, certainly the metal 
parts that were sent to HMV would have been preserved.

That being said, there's so much scratch on the Soundstream versions 
that I'm almost 100% certain that they were sourced from commercial 
pressings.

Michael Shoshani