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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 ? > 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 > [log in to unmask] >