On 14/07/2013, Donald Clarke wrote:

> Hobbyists are doing good things at home with old recordings. I hope
> there won't be a repeat of the early history of broadcasting, when the
> hobbists were better at it than the businessmen, so it was made
> illegal.
> 
Hobbyists can work on 78s, but for the tape era a restorer must have
access to the studio master tapes to get good results.

> On Jul 14, 2013, at 10:04 AM, Don Cox wrote:
> 
> The problem is that most of the transfers of great performances were
> done early on and have not been re-transferred with modern methods. So
> we are stuck with a great many substandard transfers of famous
> recordings. 
> 
> Regards
Regards
-- 
Don Cox
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