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In Reply to: I'd pay $30, and so would at least 500 others posted by rbolaw on September 6, 2015 at 19:59:41:
Thanks!
The tapes are currently owned by Warner Music. I wildly speculate that in the corridors of Warner Music's executive offices there pulsates a deep and abiding faith that absolutely nobody of consequence reads the scrawlings of John Marks, so if they just pretend that I don't exist, they don't have to deal with the fallout of a Kickstarter project disrupting the market for CSOB remasterings that are sharp and fast.
Some poor fool paid $260 on eBay (two hundred sixty dollars) for a used Esoteric by TEAC SACD that was made from a 24/96 PCM pass of a re-mixed substitute master tape. I am sure that the head of Esoteric, who chooses their SACD projects personally, is blissfully unaware of me and my obsession. But were I in his shoes and found out, I'd want a refund of all the license fees I paid as well as my NRE costs.
Or, if that speculation is too wild, on the negotiating principle that a Kickstarter promoter needs the master tapes a lot more than Warner needs an annoying anorak twerp in their reception area, were I Warner, I'd separate the boychiks from the menchiks by saying, "Sure, we'll look for the tapes and send whatever we have to Bob Ludwig. Our vault-search fee is a non-refundable $5000, even if we find nothing. If we find tapes, the $5000 is a non-refundable advance against royalties. All risk that the tapes are unplayable is yours."
So, I just don't have the stomach lining left to get involved where the other party obviously does not want to play ball.
jm
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