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Posted by John Marks on January 6, 2017 at 10:19:38:
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1) The "more treble" is actually "less cut in the treble that is on the LP," so, I guess when you say distortion you mean groove noise or cartridge mistracking. Yup, that is a 54-year old LP!

2) As far as I know, there are slightly different-from-each-other Decca curves up to 1953,; and then, from 1954 on to... I dunno!

Michael Fremer went on an epic tear some years ago, claiming that "ffrr" was just a trademark and not an EQ curve. Which is not true.

However, by the time Decca/London were putting out Rolling Stones stereo LPs, RIAA was the EQ curve in use. But dealing with historical mono classical LPs, there is a real difference.

Not that I am an archivist, but, I think that in this case, a Mozart violin concerto with I think pretty obviously a spot mic on the soloist in the mix, the 2.7dB treble difference is a major difference.

Certainly if one were to compare an RIAA Heifetz LP to an ffrr Oistrakh LP played back with too much treble cut, one would get an unrealistic comparison.

ATB,

John