On 11/10/2013, Richard L. Hess wrote: > Hi, Jamie, > > You make a lot of good points in this post--thank you for taking the > trouble to do that. I also applaud your efforts to get the EQ correct. > > The challenge with this is that the recording curves probably were not > accurate to 0.1 dB in most situations. In fact, the calibration tapes > were not that flat when the masters were being made. > > I have way too many older calibration tapes because some day I want to > do a project: look at them all on a fairly flat recorder calibrated to > a new MRL tape. It will be interesting to see the range of > differences. > People can hear very small differences in EQ. But this is also a variable that the brain can adapt to very easily. (Unlike for instance noise pumping.) Regards -- Don Cox [log in to unmask]