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   From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Audio Empire   wrote:   
   >On a slightly different subject. It's too bad that some of the better   
   >"autocorrelation" programs aren't available for hobbyists. I have some recent   
   >re-masterings (on CD and SACD) of  old RCA and Mercury classics as well as   
   >some old Jazz recording from the 1950's and early 1960's that are as quiet as   
   >any modern digital recording. And get this, the software used to do this   
   >manages to remove the tape hiss, cover the drop-outs (after all these tape   
   >masters are 50-years old and older) and do it all so seamlessly that you   
   >don't notice it and it does it without rolling off the top end!   
      
   Uhh.... here's the thing, though.  If you listen to those tapes and films,   
   they don't have much in the way of hiss or drop-outs to begin with.   
      
   Listen to some of the Everest remasterings which are just straight dubs   
   right off the master tapes with the center channel mixed in.  Or the   
   Mercury reissues that David Chesky did, which again are straight dubs with   
   no processing.  They sound spectacular, because the originals sounded   
   spectacular in the first place.   
      
   1/2" 3-track is nothing to sneeze at... and 3-track 35mm magfilm is stunningly   
   quiet even by modern standards.   
   --scott   
      
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