[78-L] HMV crackle

[Erwin Kluwer]

Hi Guys,

Many thanks for your replies so far!

Quite interesting how many explanations are circulating around concerning
this matter....

Best,

Erwin

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 4:28 AM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > db
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