charles wrote:

In article ,
The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Tape was truly AWFUL.

Cassette tape, yes, properly maintained 15ips or even 30ips - no.

Where do you think the masters for CDs came from?

Indeed. I've just listened to a 1964 (first transmission; they don't say
when it was recorded) BBC recording of a song recital given by Benjamin
Britten & Peter Pears:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...d_Peter_Pears/

I didn't find the sound quality got in the way of my enjoyment of this
performance. I suppose it is possible that the BBC might have cleaned up
the original recording in some fashion before making this available on
iplayer, but even if that's true it means the original recording was well
engineered.

Do the people who think pre-1980s tape is dreadful think this performance is
dreadful too?


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