Re: DG 1956 Mozart Jubilee Edition


Steven de Mena wrote:
> "taro" <penguin@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1138320581.440817.57640@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > tomdeacon wrote:
> >> Ha!
> >>
> >> Typical response.
> >>
> >> In essence they have reinvigorated the copyright, as they own the
> >> mastertapes, which are far superior to any LP transfer the likes of you
> >> might do, and you are unable to use the CDs to remaster your product.
> >>
> >> So there!
> >>
> >> Go ahead. Make their day. Issue the same thing in inferior copies.
> >
> > Although I am not a professional for that direction at all, I have
> > heard
> > that some old LPs sound better than degraded magnetic mastertapes
> > from which we can only get degraded sounds. I understand this kind
> > of situation is not universal. When this is true, LP transfers make
> > sense
> > to me from the stand point of sound quality, their commercial and/or
> > market values aside.
> >
> > Just my thought. Please correct me if I am wrong.
> > And probably I should add the fact that I am not one of LP collecters.
>
> It's not that you are wrong, but this same point (that some tapes might have
> degraded) is often cited as the reason why a certain company or person
> remasters from LP's or 78s. However, they typically have no knowledge of
> the condition or existence of the master tapes for the recordings they have
> remastered, and have not attempted to negotiate rights to these tapes from
> the owner(s). So I don't feel that is a good defense.

You are right. But when one can easily expect negotiating and
obtaining
rights would take time and money too much (especially a large firm
against
a private party), and when one can expect reasonably good sound from
LP transfers, and when the original companies would likely (or
seemingly)
ignore particular recordings for reissuing, there might be a practical
reason
of existence for LP-transferring-and-reissuing companies (or people).

Could this be a better defense?

I, at the same time, wonder if such private parties (like HaydnHouse,
Pristine Audio, ReDiscovery, etc.) are making full-time profit from
reissuing
CD-Rs. Or are they something like extended hobbies?

-- taro

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