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kap'n krunch

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Most of you know of the "Internet Archive" website...
Here is its digitized 78 rpm "Philly" section.
Mind you, all of these have been recorded with 4 different stylii because there was no "standard" regarding the grooves (which I didn't know), and they offer flat and EQ'd versions...

Was listening to "Gloria" (in Spanish) released a year before Van Morrison's version was released..
Enjoy!

http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/...old-records-and-growing-free-to-download?l=df
 
Most of you know of the "Internet Archive" website...
Here is its digitized 78 rpm "Philly" section.
Mind you, all of these have been recorded with 4 different stylii because there was no "standard" regarding the grooves (which I didn't know), and they offer flat and EQ'd versions...

Was listening to "Gloria" (in Spanish) released a year before Van Morrison's version was released..
Enjoy!

http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/...old-records-and-growing-free-to-download?l=df

The article seems stuck, however from a cached copy i've got the reference

https://archive.org/details/georgeblood
 
Yeah, I knew about this - but still makes me smile that this is being done. I firmly believe it's very important to archive as much of this material as possible before the inevitable happens.
 
Yeah, I knew about this - but still makes me smile that this is being done. I firmly believe it's very important to archive as much of this material as possible before the inevitable happens.

This is exactly the kind of promiscuity I love! It looks like they're just preserving everything without worrying about subjective quality. If that sounds like sarcasm, it's not. My beloved 78 collection is a random assortment of Important Stuff and glorious crap.

While I really appreciate the multiple styli and EQ options, it's not clear to me that they've devoted as much effort to speed, which in the pre-electrical days was not really standardized.

And while I find the 24/96 files crazy for daily playback, they're excellent for those with the time and desire to play with ClickRepair.
 
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