[SC.LUG] expanding lug?

[Richard Smedley]

Jonathan Dwerryhouse wrote:

>>for recording and reproduction, though you want perfection, not
>>imperfection, and thats where digital rules the day.
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>If you agree with the above then how can you say it's better for recording?
>Have you ever heard of a concert pianist record Bach's Goldberg Variations
>on a digital piano?  Although it would be funny to hear someone like Murray
>Pariah playing that with the naff xzylophone effects ;-)
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I think Ian meant digital /recording/ - knowing of course
that I strongly disagree =^)

Side-by-side comparisons here are few and far between.
Glenn Goulds analogue and digital Goldbergs were 30
years apart, so not a good comparison.

There is the case of the Nimbus records recorded
direct to disk (no tape) in the 80s, and subsequently
released on CD. I don't know whether the CDs were from
simultaneous digital recordings however.

As for bandwidth, Ian must be joking, CDs destroy the
high treble - and where is the ``air'' around the strings?
All the subtleties of  a room's acoustic can be  lost by CD.

 - Richard