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On 6/28/2019 at 6:48 PM, J. S. Bach said:

Well, yesterday Enrico Caruso (on a 100+ year old acoustic Victrola78); even allowing for the age/type of the recording, that man could really belt it out.

 

Followed by Ruth Wallace/ Admiral's Daughter:

 

You mean a real Victrola built by the Victor Talking Machine Co. and not one of these cheap Chinese pieces of garbage they sell in Canadian Tire?

That YouTube video looks like a normal turntable.  Hopefully it’s for a cartridge on it with a 2.5 mil stylus and no RIAA de-emphasis in the preamp.

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30 minutes ago, Wayside Observer said:

You mean a real Victrola built by the Victor Talking Machine Co. and not one of these cheap Chinese pieces of garbage they sell in Canadian Tire?

That YouTube video looks like a normal turntable.  Hopefully it’s for a cartridge on it with a 2.5 mil stylus and no RIAA de-emphasis in the preamp.

No, the record is branded "VICTROLA".

I have no idea what table/playback kit is used in the video as it is not mine, I just linked to it. I just noticed the the YouTube table is a Dual model. Mine is a Technics SP-15/Syntec S-220 arm/ Sumiko headshell/Shure M97Xe cart.

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The Wallace records were recorded after the RIAA curve was introduced. They sound right on my system

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On June 29, 2019 at 8:33 PM, J. S. Bach said:

No, the record is branded "VICTROLA".

I have no idea what table/playback kit is used in the video as it is not mine, I just linked to it. I just noticed the the YouTube table is a Dual model. Mine is a Technics SP-15/Syntec S-220 arm/ Sumiko headshell/Shure M97Xe cart.

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The Wallace records were recorded after the RIAA curve was introduced. They sound right on my system

Ah ok.  I see a lot of strange playback setups for 78s.  One of my friends is really bad for using a microgroove stylus on 78 RPM records and that's so bad for both the stylus and the records, then he rams the output through a normal preamp and then wildly cranks the tone controls to try to counter the RIAA equalization.  I've seen a number of other wild ways people attempt to play back 78s on equipment designed for LPs.

As for what music I'm listening to right now, I'm sitting in the back yard while the smoker's cooking ribs, enjoying a cup of coffee, watching birds at the two feeders, listening to the distant strains of a blues band that's on stage at the bandshell at a park a kilometre or two away.

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Tracy Chapman - Give Me One Reason.

I ended up with a second hand thrift store copy of New Beginning and let the album play through beginning to end.  I never liked this song all that much when it was being played heavily on the radio in the mid 1990s but I really enjoyed listening to it off of the CD.  I could hear a lot of the subtleties and nuances in the music that the radio stations' on air processing totally clobbered and it sounded great, unlike the way it sounded on the radio back in the day.  Mix 99.9, I'm looking at you.

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