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Guide to Styli for Playing 78s

Insights into the kind of crap 78-rpm records were made of, and other scarce technical infos.

If you’re not sure what ‘a record’ is, or haven’t ever seen one, you’re excused.

Oh, and by-the-way, 78 is the approximate number you get when you rotate a 46-tooth gear with a 3600 rpm motor. (60 cycles per second.)

Further wisdom such as this is found by the ton here: http://www.78rpmrecord.com/links.htm

  • stown@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Here’s some flame bait:

    Why would you want to listen to your music in this inferior format? I get it if there aren’t any modern recordings or quality transfers but to actually sit down and enjoy the low signal to noise ratio of a record just boggles the mind.

    • IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I tend to click around when I’m listening to digital music, it’s so easy to put on something else, skip a track, and generally fuck about.

      If I’m listening to vinyl I tend to listen to the entire album. It’s a better way of focussing my attention.

      • kalkulat@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        It’s a great service. I found several of his expertly-created 78 tunes on there that I hadn’t heard in decades. (Some scarce stuff is almost never NOT available on 33 or 45rpm)

        Another reason: Some people get deeper into multiple pieces of music because they like to compare performances of them. Fidelity doesn’t matter a whole lot. You want to compare how some bands or singers performed a (non-hit) song recorded in the 1930s or 1950s. You listen around the fidelity. People in the 1950s made million-selling hits everyone heard on AM radio or 45s. Fidelity is over-rated.