[78-L] Recording Quality - a relative term

[Rodger Holtin]

You've swerved into the very situation that prompted my initial query on the
subject.  I work with a young man (34-35) who is an avid amateur musician,
has perfect pitch, plays almost anything, and listens to nearly everything.
We work for a software development company and spend a few hours every day
doing some repetitive/menial tasks that support the rest of our day, and
some days to stave off the boredom we break out the headphones and share
music with each other.  I made a CD for him of some stuff from the late
1950s/early 1960s, including the Boston Pops and some of those Glen Gray big
band remakes.  He raved about the quality of the recording and wanted to
know where I got them.  He thought they were new.

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On 7/7/2014 1:16 AM, Mike Harkin wrote:
>
> .>CYLINDERS< sound better than today's pop music productions!  Never 
> mind the garbage 'lyrics.'
>
> Mike in Plovdiv

I don't think it's been mentioned specifically, but one of my big objections
to current consumer fodder is that it's all engineering, not music, piled up
like the famous McGee closet and cascaded onto the listener with no
particular regard for the result. Singers don't enunciate, lyrics are
incomprehensible, accompaniments drown everything.

Had an interesting experience recently. I got a 1960's LP on the Canadian
ARC label, by Hal Lone Pine and Jeannie Ward, this apparently from the
period following his divorce from Betty Cody, when he was operating out of
Regina, SK. ARC was in Toronto, and I don't know anything about their
operation, but when I played the record it was a surprise - clean, full
sound, nice separation amongst the instruments, good reproduction of solo
and duet singing. Maybe someone knows more about ARC and will tell us; but
this is certainly the best example I've heard lately of what people have
been saying about the state of the recording art during this discussion.
ARC's liner notes make much of their technology and care; and they're right,
I think you'd be hard put to find a CD this good.


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David Sanderson
East Waterford Maine
dwsanderson685 at roadrunner.com
http://www.dwsanderson.me

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