| From: | Don Cox |
| Date: | 8 Aug 2000 at 11:19:31 |
| Subject: | Re: Cd`s & Record Decks |
On 08-Aug-00, Steve Clark wrote:
>> Are you sure you could tell them apart blindfold?
>
> Led Zep played on an origional (good quality) 70's system played
> alongside a 90's CD system aren't even in the same league. The 70's
> sound required the earthyness that you can not get with digital. You
> have to remember the engineers mastered the records to sound the way
> they did on analogue and not the clean high definition sound we get
> these days.
But this is a completely different thing. What you are saying is that
the engineers in the 70s used certain settings on the mixers when
cutting the discs, and that recent engineers have used different
settings. Probably nobody knows what the original settings were, but
they could be imitated if people wanted to.
The management presumably decided that the CDs should sound more modern.
This is a production decision, not a technical problem with CDs.
I don't have the particular records you mention so I can't compare.
But take a similar example: the cover design for Raymond Scott's early
electronic music "Soothing Sounds for Baby" is reproduced inside the
booklet. The cover design actually used for the CDs is in a fake 1960s
style which somebody obviously thought looked better or more suitable
than the originals. In fact, the originals are much more typical of
1960s design.
1990s people can't believe that 1960s or 1970s people really wanted it
like that. But there's no technical reason why a CD can't embody a
dirty sound if you want one.
Regards
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