10 MAY 1986, page 43

Bryan Ferry

Recording technology has improved consider- ably in the past few years, especially in the field of electronic/electric music, with an ever- increasing use of new digital......

Stanley Sadie

To anyone who once found a thrill in cautiously lowering an arm onto a fragile, revolving black surface, and marvelling at the attenuated evoca- tions of musical experience that......

Arts

S ometimes one would follow a record to the ends of the earth. What collector does not know that sudden fixation on a particu- lar disc which must be lying somewhere in a • s......

Rodney Mines

My initial enthusiasm has not waned. The interference-free sound continues to delight and so does the way that favourite old recordings come up as if freshly minted in the new......

Peter Katin

I am of course very impressed with what is clearly a great achievement — gone are the crackles and pops of the LP, and gone (in a digital recording) is the tape hiss. CDs are......

Compact Discs

Points of view Richard Baker I derive enormous pleasure from my compact disc player, in particular it is good for chamber music and solo instruments. However, I do find the......