The problem with the music

We are forgetting the issue that the recording people are "THERE," at the original event.

To make an analogy with photography, even a guy with a crappy $199.00 point and shoot digital from CompUSA (at the original event) will go home with better quality images than what's printed in the newspaper the next morning.

Point I'm making, these guys have a great job and even with very good (forget state of the art) equipment, they will capture the artist with more fidelity than most formats the record companies are throwing at us today.

Don't believe me? Get someone in the business to run you off a copy of a analog master tape on half track, 15 IPS or 30 IPS and compare with SACD, Redbook or even the best LP. You will be amazed.

I am currently working on my fifth and sixth master dupes, (Pink Floyd and Art Garfunkel). I never liked Aerosmith until I owned a master dupe, now I listen to the group and hear things I never knew existed.

I am scheduled to record some classical musicians associated with the Dallas Symphony this fall.

It WILL be with a high speed analog tape machine and large diaphragm tube microphones. I can't wait to see if my system can reproduce what I hear live.

Cinematic Systems..

So you are saying that all the recordings are superb and nobody should doubt thier quality, it is just Nrchy's crappy mismatched system?

Sorry, but i find that kind of hard to swallow.

Personally i think your comment was totally off topic and if you want to tell Nrchy he doesent know synergy from his ass that maybe you should do it in a private email than publicly stating it here on this thread.

Looking at this thread it looks more of a discussion about the level of desire in modern recording companys to produce high quality recordings, which i think most people would agree that not all recording agencys put quality of recordings as thier top priority. I could be wrong but i could have sworn that is where the discussion was going.

Plus nobody likes a know-it-all

But that's just my humble opinion. ;)

Mr. Singh
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Cinematic_systems writes:

I have just bought 50 cd's from megadeth to Keb Mo to Gergiev SACD and they were all excellent.

Are you referring to the two Gergiev SACDs with the Kirov Orchestra on Philips? Sheherazade and the Shostakovich? The former is pretty dire and the latter substandard. Just trying to get a reference point.

Regards,

Well Slappy,

My advice had nothing to do with being liked, and like I said it was not meant as a cheap shot. If you knew anything about equipment you'd have some insight about what Nrchy systems problem is. Look at the pictures if they are up to date, I'm 99% certain what needs to be done.

BTW I never said his system was crap. but it may be the source of his recent experiences more than any recording he's bought.

I love the way you backed off from the topic..."not all agencies" well duh and what kind of miracle worker can make Ashley Simpson sound good? There was vast generalizations that the recording industry mainly turns out garbage... your assertion infact... Catering to MP3 users.

Typical audiophile response to my assertions, I just said I bought 50 recordings of an incredibly diverse genre's and labels and only one is "bad" the rest are good to outstanding. So my experience is in direct conflict with the rest of the posters in this thread except of course my long lost twin brother Pabelson. Sup bro!

"So you are saying that all the recordings are superb and nobody should doubt thier quality, it is just Nrchy's crappy mismatched system?"

I'm saying if you can't thoroughly enjoy 85%-90% of the recordings you buy then your system may be messed up. People get paid to make recordings and like anyone they like to keep their jobs. They don't keep their jobs by turning out trash and not caring about quality even if there is pressure otherwise.

I will tell you that I have very recent experience with transforming a pair of Kharma midi Exquisites from selective quality playback to one that makes nearly every recording sound good. Recordings that were "bad" suddenly are intriquite and exquisite. Hmmm and to think it had nothing to do with changing power cords!

But what I did was a "know it all thing", you wouldn't understand.

Later.