From: Steven Mumford I have never given a crap about recording quality in any medium. I happily listen to worn out vinyl with all the scratches, hisses, pops, clicks, spilled beer, melted parts from being left in a hot car, various wires having fallen apart on my turntable, rogue interfering electrical signals from the teapot in the sky, smoke wafting out of tortured vacuum tubes in my war surplus amplifier, my half-deaf grandfather dancing wildly and bumping the turntable every 5 seconds. None of that bothers me in the slightest. If I want to hear good audio quality, I go to a concert. - Steve Mumford
Somewhere I have a Penguin Editions paperback about the orchestra. In it is the statement that most musicians do not own high fidelity reproducing equipment because they "fill in" the missing quality from their brains, which have been trained by playing live so much. Granted this was written I believe in the late '40s and things have changed, but I agree with Steve - if the performance is of quality, that will project no matter the quality of the actual recording. Listen to some of the Dennis Brain reissues - mono, hissy, narrowed frequency spectrum, even on CD. I still listen to them in awe, because his music making cannot be squished into the limitations of the medium - it surpasses them. While I do indeed enjoy the debate about the quality of various recording mediums, I also think it can get overblown. I used to tell prospective customers when asked directly "what speakers should I be [are the best]" "The ones that you enjoy listening to the most" I feel the same way about recordings - listen the ones that stir your heart the most. It is ultimately about enjoyment, fulfillment, and lasting results, not merely about how good the technology is. Paxmaha ________________________________ _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/paxmaha%40yahoo.com _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
