[peel] Re: Who here can relate??

[Phil Edwards]

Sean wrote
> (Of course, the earliest sound recordings are fixed on
> several-thousand-year-old clay pots, whose surface grooves have been shown
> to
> carry the vibrations of the pottery wheel on which they were made.  But
> you  sure can't dance to 'em.)
>
> -Sean
>
Maybe not, but our Mark (at Dandelion Radio) will certaintly want to play it
on one of his shows.
Phil

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  -----Original Message-----
  From: peel@yahoogroups.com [mailto:peel@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Sean
Carolan
  Sent: 15 November 2006 15:00
  To: peel@yahoogroups.com
  Subject: Re: [peel] Re: Who here can relate??


  On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:09:52 +0000, Martin Wheatley wrote
  > Personally my ears are old and the highest of
  > fidelity would be wasted on them (even if the original vinyl and
  > tapes were sparkling quality in the first place which they obviously
  > aren't)

  I finally rationalized it this way: These records will never sound better
than
  they do right now when I take them out, put them on the platter and drop
the
  needle on them (or the analogue if you've got cassettes, 8-tracks or
  reel-to-reels.) As long as the digitized copy sounds like the original in
an
  A-B comparison, you've successfully done the job of preservation. Purists
  will scoff, but I wasn't ever a purist.

  After I digitize them, I've hopefully arrested their deterioration [he
said,
  hoping the CD-Rs he's storing them on don't go unreadable at some point -
  which is why it's a good idea to hold onto the vinyl.]

  Interesting point: My father's reel-to-reel tapes, some recorded in 1958,
  remain surprisingly listenable, even after, at best, laughably
inappropriate
  storage. I was expecting flaking oxide, but no. Though since his chosen
  recording method was microphone-to-speaker, one occasionally hears
  distractions like the dog barking when an unexpected visitor rings the
door
  buzzer - thus affording a glimpse of everyday life in a Bronx, NY
apartment
  almost fifty years ago.

  (Of course, the earliest sound recordings are fixed on
  several-thousand-year-old clay pots, whose surface grooves have been shown
to
  carry the vibrations of the pottery wheel on which they were made. But you
  sure can't dance to 'em.)

  -Sean