Article: Knights of the grail

THE ASSOCIATION FOR RECORDED SOUND COLLECTIONS IS DEVOTED TO SAFEGUARDING THE SOUNDS OF THE PAST

Among the mixed blessings conferred by the compact disc, few have been as surprising as the range and quantity of historical material that has resurfaced in the new medium. Initially, this carrier of squeaky-clean sonics seemed likely to toll the death knell of recordings burdened with tape hiss, surface scratch, pops and ticks, or the other grungy artifacts characteristic of earlier sound-storage technologies. Far from it: over the last decade or so, we have come to take it for granted that sooner or later almost anything we always wanted to hear will turn up on CD - not to mention things we ...

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