Hi-Rez Highway

Posted by vahe@flash.net on July 07, 2007 at 13:15:34

In Reply to: RE: Low End EQ? posted by Michael Bishop on July 07, 2007 at 06:06:08

"It was common practice at other classical labels in those days to tame down the natural dynamics and frequency response of an orchestra recording to accommodate the limits of analog tape and to fit the program on LP"

Do not really know or understand how difficult it is to capture these low frequency high dynamic signals on analog tape, but on the consumer end the Telarc LP's, when they first showed up, REALLY taxed cartridges to their absolute limit, in fact we tried many high end cartridges back in those early days of digitally mastered LP's and most produced considerable distortion, related to mistracking, with Telarc LP's.
Not a criticism of Telarc LP's, to me this clearly demonstrates the inherent limitations of analog playback source when dealing with non-compressed classical orchestral recordings.

Vahe