On 23 Jan 2011, at 23:52, Robert Greene wrote: > Of course this completely ignored the fact > that in blind testing years ago, > everyone preferred cassettes of vinyl > to vinyl itself(which ought to have > told people something about the recording > industry's recording practices).
Sounds like they were using DDM vinyl ;) Besides, some people like euphonic distortion like tape saturation. But such things should always an effect used during production, not a side-effect introduced by the delivery medium. So even if cassette sounds "better" it's still worse, because it should sound like what was mastered, and if the cassette sound is the target sound, then that's how the master tape should sound. It shouldn't be introduced in playback. Therefore <insert favorite four letter word> all "better sound" that's introduced by the medium or equipment. Anything that doesn't exactly sound like the original master is sounding worse, by the very definition that it diverges from the master. If you don't like how the master sounds, yell at the mastering engineer, don't screw with euphonic playback equipment. Ronald _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
