2010/4/12 Jörn Nettingsmeier <nettings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > if all those cable and bit transparency fetishists knew how reference > classical recordings are produced, the whole discussion (and large parts > of the high-end market) would go down in flames. from 1981-1983 i worked in the largest record store in europe (HMV on Oxford St. in London). we used to crack up reading audiophile magazines that would rave about pressings on virgin, extra-thick vinyl and all the other things that audiophiles were supposed to look for to get the very best reproducable sound. why? because between the record company (no matter who they were) and the consumer who bought the record from HMV was a 400F oven that we passed every single record through in order to shrink the shrinkwrap around it. now, it was true that there were retailers who didn't do this sort of thing, but we noticed that nobody in the audiophile world ever seemed to be aware of the existence of this step in their precious signal handling chain. Even 4mm of virgin vinyl gets pretty, uhm, soft after 15-20 seconds in that oven, and what that does to the frequency response of the groove walls would (once) have been an interesting little master's project perhaps. --p _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
