The Plangent Process playback system? Huh?


This from the Acoustic Sounds description of the upcoming box of the first seven Springsteen albums:

"Using the Plangent Process playback system, noted for its ability to correct pitch errors and other distortions in the magnetic tape, this is, hands down, the most detailed take on Springsteen's high-energy studio performances anywhere."

I've never heard of this Plangent thing. Does anyone know anything about it?

I'll be buying this box no matter -- I've long loved these records -- but would be absolutely thrilled if they were somehow made to actually sound, well, better than they used to. Even when I was spinning "Darkness on the Edge of Town" on a crappy little department store stereo back in the 1970s, I remember thinking that the record didn't sound so good. Growing up to a real system only confirmed that, and made me long for more. Here's hoping these remasters will give us what we've been missing all this time.

Thanks.

-- Howard
hodu
Cma39, you don't understand what the process tries to accomplish. Tape recorders add specific types of distortion to the music signal and the Plangent Process can analyze and remove some of these distortions.
The process corrects for wow/flutter..... that's it. Recorders can only add 2nd order distortion, which is good.
Any one here buy the BS album collection vol. 1?

If so, did you buy the Vinyl or CD edition?
PLease comment on the sound of this set.

Happy Listening!
No, untrue.
Recorders add third, and the transports add a lot of IM distortion.
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Are you familiar with other kinds of distortion besides second and third harmonic? What about intermodulation distortion - sum and difference non-harmonically related sidebands caused by frequency modulation of the audio by the transport.

The Process fixes that - IM is on tape at levels that if it were a preamp or amp you'd s**tcan it, but because it's caused by the transport, and called and measured as "flutter" it's real hard for some folks to get their head around the idea --- an almost aggro backlash response to basic FM theory that's been around since dirt.