(OFF) Re: WOTEOT master tapes (was Re: Jamun & Spacerocktrading intro)

[mike c]

Please forgive me, I don't want to be misunderstood or thought to be
injecting into things you guys mentioned.
What I meant was simply that the Atco records (vinyl), sound inefrior,
IMHO, and flat.
The test press is much better, but still doesn't sound like a UA
master to me It's Way BRIGHT
thanks

On 3/10/11, mike c <insect.brain at gmail.com> wrote:
> those opinions and revelations agreed upon from my own even further
> inexpertness, my extreme inexpert addition that could be a fallacy, is
> that the Atco tapes always seemd to have a "brightish-ness" top-endy
> "thing" going on, as compared the the UA richness....
> Of course, a Rega 3 was as high up the comsumatorial ladder as I ever
> got and 15" Cerwin's were probably not the defintion of clarity.
> Brightness exceptionally apparent on USA test-press, and just think,
> "letting in" what I think is the future, this will all pile back up
> full circle as a quite chunky LP.
> Let's get the next CD out of the way, as time moves quickly now and
> and earthly life hangs in a crucial flux...
>
> On 3/10/11, Carl Edlund Anderson <cea at carlaz.com> wrote:
>> On 10 Mar 2011, at 10:22 , lucidsound wrote:
>>> Overall, the vinyl has a darker sound, the Griffin CD has more top-end
>>> extension and detail.
>>
>> While there are, of course, exceptions this would tend to fit my general
>> (inexpert) impressions of comparing decently mastered vinyl played on
>> consumer turntables with decently mastered CDs played on consumer
>> equipment.
>>
>> Which -- insofar as my opinions have any validity! -- suggests that the
>> Griffin CD is a decently mastered CD. :)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Carl
>>
>> --
>> Carl Edlund Anderson
>> http://www.carlaz.com/
>>
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