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In Reply to: SACD source, is old recording worth it ? posted by akltam on August 1, 2002 at 08:01:53:
Old tapes will have hiss, tape fallout, compression and a less-than-pristine sound due to less-than-perfect microphone technique and chain of electronics.Some things I CANNOT tolerate, which includes tape fallout and obvious splices or joins.
However, with a really good performance, I can adapt and learn to be oblivious to minimal tape hiss and other frequency response anomalies. This is because the performance is so good that attention is drawn away from these imperfect aspects.
Also, a good transfer of old analog tape to DSD can capture the subtle and expressive continuity of the music much better than most modern low resolution PCM recordings can, sometimes even better than high resolution recordings. On the surface, the old analog tape transfers will sound flawed, while modern PCM recordings sound so perfect and clean. However, the latter turn out to be well-scrubbed corpses of the music, while the former, while old, come to life with a surprisingly youthful spring in their steps!
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