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is there a market?

Is their a large enough market within the audiophile community and music lovers alike to start a recording company that recorded primarily jazz and classical music the right way?  Is there a chance to capture the great orchestras of america in a totally analog process from start to finish just like they did back in the fifties?  I would think many orchestras would jump at the opportunity to be part of the effort to be recorded like the great orchestras were in the mid 20th century.  Is there still equipment in existence and engineering know how to make this happen?  There certainly is a renewed interest in vinyl and the sound it produces even if it is done digitally.  How about the real thing?
tzh21y
tzh21y OP
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It just seems like this might be the right time to do something like this.  I see turntables everywhere, even on commercials.  Maybe part of the problem with digital recordings of orchestras is that there is something emotionally missing from the sound.  The great orchestras should be very much open to anything that would promote them positively.  I just was on the Decca website.  They are reissuing the living presence recordings AGAIN.  Why?  Why not make recordings that are just as good, maybe even better, and allow the the orchestras of today to be appreciated as they should sound.  Decca above all others knows how good all analog records are.
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whart
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Cost. Master in the can is cheaper than new, from scratch production particularly if large production and party issuing record already owns the rights in the master and doesn't even have to pay for that licensing fee. 
ebm
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This will never happen.

tzh21y OP
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There is such a demand for these recordings that they just keep reissuing them.  Yet the classical music industry is not doing  well.  Go figure.  Geez I guess we will just reissue some living stereos and old Decca's, those are the ones people want after all, screw the current orchestras.  I mean how much would it really cost decca to do it.  They have to still have some of the equipment and know how.  If not, I am sure their are Decca engineers that did this that are still with us that could do it again.  Somebody could make these great orchestras sound great again.  Brass and strings just do not cut it in digital period.
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whart
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TZ- it’s a cost factor, and also, from a market/risk standpoint, reissuing a known warhorse is a safer bet than creating something new (apart from the cost risk- did I mention risk and cost?) :) Same complaint could be made about many reissues on the pop/rock or even the jazz fronts too, though I gather folks are pretty happy will some of the jazz reissues of blue note by music matters. First question someone behind the desk making a decision would ask is-- what’s the market? Same question you are asking.
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