Date:         Tue, 9 Jan 2007 18:37:48 -0600
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That just goes to prove it was a mastering EQ decision that ruined many 
discs.  The 6 eye and 2 eye stuff was good vinyl, pressed and plated 
well.  There are a few of the 6 eye records that are very good, but 
those got by the inspection process without setting off the alarms.


David Lennick wrote:
> Not surprising..in the 70s when I programmed classical radio, 
> Columbias were pretty near the final choices (aside from my being 
> bored to death by most Ormandy performances and wondering when 
> Bernstein was going to stop being such a freaking showoff). Their eq 
> was definitely weird and usually earsplitting. Two pressings of the 
> same disc could sound vastly different. I opened the US sample of 
> Berman playing the Rachmaninoff 3rd Concerto and was knocked out. The 
> Canadian pressing had no life to it. (And at the time the Canadian 
> pressings were far superior..the US pressings were always accompanied 
> by little bits of plastic shavings which scratched the discs before 
> you ever played them.)
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> dl
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> phillip holmes wrote:
>> Yes, recent CD transfers (done by Sony, right?) and the original 
>> 7.5ips tapes were very good.  Yes, they had limitations, but they 
>> didn't have the weird EQ that the LPs had.
>> Phillip
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>> Don Cox wrote:
>>> On 08/01/07, phillip holmes wrote:
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>>>> I snatch up Columbia promo copies whenever I see them. The classical
>>>> promo copies are especially good, compared to the regular issues, even
>>>> though the Columbia classical sound doesn't measure up to RCA,
>>>> Mercury, EMI and Decca standards--mostly because of EQ decisions
>>>> made--house sound?--the tapes and CD reissues sound much better than
>>>> the LPs.     
>>>
>>> That has been my experience with Columbia LPs, especially if you mean
>>> recent CD transfers.
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