[78-L] HMV crackle

[David Lennick]

Ah, but unless you looked at those packing crates, you can't be sure they 
weren't sitting in the UK until finally shipped to these shores after the 
damage had been done. Nor do you offer the testimony of anyone who witnessed 
their dispatch or receipt in either country and, in fact, are relying only on 
the implied testimony of the store owner who is conveniently no longer in 
business (sorry, I was just watching one of the early "Boston Legal" episodes).

I've had lots of "new stock" HMV 78s as well, and they were still noisy, but 
they may still have sat unsold in England for a couple of decades. And I've 
never found a radio station copy of an EMI or Decca 78 that wasn't incredibly 
quiet, even after much handling and playing. They weren't special radio station 
pressings, either..CFRB and CBC Toronto purchased them from the Promenade Music 
Centre in the 1940s.

dl

DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
> This crackle certainly has nothing to do with British climate.  I purchased some G & S sets from Cappy's in Detroit which were still in their shipping crates, never played and having spent their entire lives, (I assume), in the USA.  They exhibited the same noisy surfaces as other well-played HMVs.  Canadian and American pressings of the same sets are quiet by comparison.
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> db
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