Vincent, thanks!

Don Cox, any comments on the audio quality of this reissue?

-- Tom Fine

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Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Audibility of 44/16 ?


> If I may. Click on the url below:
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> http://www.amazon.com/Put-There-Mckinneys-Cotton-Pickers/dp/B00000JRYS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1360595766&sr=8-1&keywords=mckinney%27s+cotton+pickers+%2B+put+it+there
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> Vincent Pelote
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> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: "Tom Fine" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 8:23:51 AM
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Audibility of 44/16 ?
>
> Hi Don:
>
> Can you recommend a reissue of the McKinney's Cotton Pickers recordings of which you speak? I'm
> interested!
>
> -- Tom Fine
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Don Cox" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 7:02 AM
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Audibility of 44/16 ?
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>
>> On 10/02/2013, Tom Fine wrote:
>>
>>
>>> BTW, anyone who thinks ANY analog recording chain was "transparent" or
>>> output equalled input has tin ears or is in denial. All sorts of
>>> things happen with disk recording and even with the best tape
>>> recorders, and both media are far from "silent" or "transparent."
>>> Eye-opening at ARSC Rochester was Nick Bergh's demonstration of how
>>> good the audio was going to a Victor cutterhead in the 1930s. Find me
>>> a pressed 78 or even most laquers or metal parts from that era that
>>> have that kind of fidelity.
>>
>> Lots of distortion in the cutter, and more in the pickup cartridge.
>>
>> But even so, a well made transfer from a clean copy of a 1930-ish Victor
>> can be remarkably good. There is a real impression of live musicians
>> playing together in a well-defined space.
>>
>> For example, the first recording session of McKinney's Cotton Pickers in
>> July 1928. These have the same punch and immediacy as Mercury recordings
>> from 30 years later.
>>
>> Regards
>> -- 
>> Don Cox
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> -- 
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> Vincent Pelote
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> Institute of Jazz Studies
> Rutgers University
> Dana Library
> 185 University Avenue
> Newark, NJ 07102
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>