Kenneth Wilkinson told an interviewer that the best recorded sound he had
heard came from a disk. He didn't qualify it with a time frame.
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I'll second that as far as Columbia lacquers and test pressings from the 40s
and early 50s,are concerned.Although the ones I have are 12".
Roger
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I *don't* disagree with Dennis. I think the notion that a late 1940s tape,
just by being what it is -- or was --, is automatically better than disc is
a little revisionist. CBS believed that their 16" disc recording
system was state of the art, and they had only been using it for eight
years in 1948. I would concur that it may have been, although the fact that
the published discs were dubbed from these sources onto
records issued with the very unfortunate laminated core was definitely a
compromise, though some especially well preserved specimens can play back
well. So much effort went into the LP program between
1944 and 1948 that I'm sure for CBS that making the additional turn towards
tape was something that would have to wait. I am gratified to know now that
1949 was the year they adopted it; I had thought it
1950. And I can cite plenty of crummy sounding tapes from the late 40s that
don't hold a patch on the fidelity of a Columbia 16" master disc from that
time.
