An interesting parallel is the simultaneous development of and concern with 
the madated "high definition" televison and the compression of moving image 
signals to enable cell phone viewing.

Or as a famous lady once said, "who's zooming whom?"

Steve Smolian
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard L. Hess" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 9:17 AM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Cedar


> At 05:42 AM 2007-05-23, Tom Fine wrote:
>>One thing to consider about CEDAR. You might want to buy some of the 
>>CBS/Sony reissues of their 78 catalog from the earlier era of CD's, for 
>>instance any of the 2CD Duke Ellington sets.
> ...
>
>>One could take just about any of the Bluebird/BMG recent reissues done by 
>>Doug Pomeroy to hear what I'm talking about. I think Doug is on-list and 
>>will correct me if I'm wrong but I believe his method is use well-cleaned 
>>metal parts whenever possible, play back very precisely and use digital 
>>tools judiciously in the computer after A-D conversion. Finally, I'm sure 
>>this is stating the obvious but even if you are successful in removing 
>>much of the background noise, a 78 still has very limited frequency 
>>response and will this never approach "fidelity" by the dictionary 
>>definition of being true to the source.
>
> Hi, Tom,
>
> I think Doug has CEDAR (not Cambridge) and I really think that what you 
> are seeing are people who are in love with the tools, listen for the wrong 
> thing, and don't realize what they are doing wrong. Also, my taste is 
> minimal and even my minimal taste may be too much for some people. I don't 
> think we can fault the tools as much as the operational tradeoffs applied 
> to them.
>
> While I don't use CEDAR processing, I do use Algorithmix and find it to be 
> a useful tool when properly applied.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
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