[78-L] Problem with very high energy incorporated into remastered 78s

[DAVID BURNHAM]

I'm afraid I don't understand what you're saying. I believe the purpose of any playback procedure is to realize as faithfully as possible the sounds of the recorded performance. You will never get an acoustically recorded symphony orchestra to sound like the real thing because the real thing wasn't in the studio. If through some sort of time travel you were able to go back to a 1917  recording session, push the recording horn aside and place a good 21st century stereo mike in its place, the recorded sound would be bizarre;  some instruments would be missing, other instruments which record better would replace them and the location of the various instruments in the sound stage would be completely inaccurate.  So the goal in modern audio reproduction is to capture the performance as well as we can. 
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>db



On Tuesday, February 4, 2014 12:16:35 PM, Philip Carli <Philip_Carli at pittsford.monroe.edu> wrote:
 
The information may be there, but one question is "what is the purpose of hearing it?"  I'm not saying that to be sarcastic, but there are different experiences listening to acoustical records in different ways and with different equipment, and all have advantages and disadvantages according to the philosophy and aesthetics used in the approach. Listening to acousticals in varying mechanical and electronic ways produces very different responses; sometimes "less is more", sometimes you want to uncover hitherto "hidden" sounds, sometimes there is too much (or too little) manipulation, but many considerations have to come into play to assess them. PC
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>As Dave Burnham has pointed out, there is a surprising amount of unexpected
>information in many acousticals. Some labels were better at capturing bass,
>such as OKeh. Years ago I bought a Fisher pre-amp and for some reason, possibly
>by accident, tried one switch which said "tape head". This produced some
>amazing lows on Stokowski's acousticals.
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>dl
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>On 2/4/2014 10:50 AM, Ron L'Herault wrote:
>>
>> Perhaps I should have said, higher.  I know there are no real highs in
>> acoustical records, just as there are no real lows.
>>
>> Ron L
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com
>> [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of DAVID BURNHAM
>> Sent: Monday, February 03, 2014 11:19 PM
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>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Problem with very high energy incorporated into
>> remastered 78s
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>> To Ron
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>> I don't know to whom your message is sent.  I'm way over 60 but there is
>> nothing on these tracks which is beyond my hearing.  The problem is in the
>> mid range, as he says, these samples are from acoustic recordings so there
>> is no extreme high frequency content to worry about.
>>
>> db
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