Comment on How to pick a stylus to play a 78-rpm record

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• madsen@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Vinyl has, AFAIK, been gaining a lot in popularity over the last 20 years. The last few years pressing plants have had trouble keeping up with demand — in part due to supply chain issues, but also because everyone and their grandma wants vinyl pressed.

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• trash80@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You should check this out:

  great78.archive.org

  The Great 78 Project is a community project for the preservation, research and discovery of 78rpm records. From about 1898 to the 1950s, an estimated 3 million sides (~3 minute recordings) have been made on 78rpm discs. While the commercially viable recordings will have been restored or remastered onto LP’s or CD, there is still research value in the artifacts and usage evidence in the often rare 78rpm discs and recordings. Already, over 20 collections have been selected by the Internet Archive for physical and digital preservation and access. Started by many volunteer collectors, these new collections have been selected, digitized and preserved by the Internet Archive, George Blood LP, and the Archive of Contemporary Music.

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  • kalkulat@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s a great service. I found his expertly-created 78s on there that I hadn’t heard in decades. (Scarce stuff 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 isn’t very important to them. You want to hear some 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 listened to AM radio or 45s. Fidelity is over-rated.

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