Re: Cables again. For Arny, et al.

On Feb 17, 10:25 am, Sonnova <sonn...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:58:27 -0800, bob wrote

> > Depends on what you were told about the two recordings.
>
> Sigh, did I not just say that the recordings were sent without comment?

Perhaps you did, but you weren't there, were you? ;) Presumably there
was *some* explanation for why two versions were sent.

<snip>

> > Also, there's not nearly enough information out there to conclude that
> > the *only* thing that changed was the cabling. If they did anything
> > twice, there's a good chance they did it better the second time--esp.
> > if *they* thought they were "hearing deeper into the music" now.
>
> Possible and likely to a certain extent. But remember what these people
 
> Music Matters were doing was taking existing Rudy Van Gelder master
tapes and
> cutting new phonograph record masters from them. The chain and the
mastering
> process (and indeed the mastering engineers) have been used before and
the
> process is the same and the people doing the transfers have likely done
it
> many times before (operating a cutting lathe is non-trivial. If you
don't
> what you are doing, you can blow out a cutter head or break an expensive
> cutting stylus in an instant at the very least, and not knowing where
the
> safe margins are or what depth to which to cut and a hundred other
variables
> will yield a useless master disc). So, I sort of dicount the "learning
curve"
> scenario.

I wasn't thinking of a learning curve per se. But as I understand it
(i.e., not much), there is at least some art to this process, which
means that it's inconceivable that they would do it exactly the same
way twice. And, as I said, if *they* thought they were hearing
something different the second time, that could well affect how they
went about it, no?

An executive with a cable company makes two versions of a recording--
one with generic cables, one with his own pricey ones--and sends them
to an audio writer. How likely is it that those two versions are
otherwise identical?

bob