[Vintage-Audio] Oldies Collection Completed

Mon Jun 30 12:05:00 2003

(apologies to all if this gets posted twice.. my email system is =
behaving strangely today)

Duane,

Sounds like a labor of love to me! It must be a very satisfying =
experience to shuffle through those songs with the convenience of a CD =
player. Are there any tracks in particular whose sonic virtues you'd =
like to extol? I find personally that the work of producer Norman Petty =
(Buddy Holly, The Fireballs) sounds great in the digital realm. (Some =
things haven't transferred so well- I have a Led Zeppelin CD that =
sounded fine on vinyl, but it is excruciating on CD.)

Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: Duane Fischer, W8DBF [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2003 5:06 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Vintage-Audio] Oldies Collection Completed

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Hi All, =09
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After a solid month of tedious work, nerve jangling stress and  dogged=20
persistence, I have completed the transfer of the Billboard Top 100 from
1956-1966 from DAT (digital audio tape) to CD. A total of 44 CDS. =09
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Originally I purchased these as reissued, but original, 45 rpm singles. =
I
recorded them from vinyl onto DAT. Then I sold the records back to the =
vender. I
backed up the DAT's and also backed them up on high quality Chromium =
cassette
tapes.  The later having better high frequencies than regular tape, =
supposedly.=20

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This turned out to be quite a project! I did not use a computer. This =
was done
with a Sony stand alone CDRW deck and my equipment. The results are an =
almost
exact copy of the original recording, with none of the garbage =
interjected by
the computer and its software. I am a firm believer in the quality =
depends on
the minimum number of steps. The less steps, the less degradation.   =09
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It is worth mentioning that perfection comes with a price. (No news =
there!) I
did some CDS six times to get them right. All sorts of little flukes can =
ruin a
track and there is no editing possible.=09
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Now I am enjoying the Oldies on a CD player feeding the H.H. Scott =
LK-72b. (I am
trying not to feel guilty for using modern gear with the vintage!) =
Coming soon,
a pair of vintage speakers.=09
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Duane W8DBF=09

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