[78-L] Mills Brothers song

[David Lennick]

I. Cubillo wrote:
> Well... to have a flip-over stylus would be an extra commodity. 

Too damn bad..that's what they're supposed to have! Especially since all those 
4-speed players in the 50s and 60s came with them. And they're charging enough 
for the things (although I've seen them fairly cheap lately).

> As far as
> those beasts have a standard modern headshell (one of those so easy to
> change), and keeping in mind that we usually put on special cartridges for
> 78s and different ones for LPs or microgrooves, it doesn't seem so bad to me
> the way they're doing it. Me myself acquired a RELOOP TT 78-capable, with
> sliding speed adjustor and everything, and I'm using it this way. I have a
> Shure SC35C with SS78E for 78s, while for microgrooves I'm using either the
> standard Stanton 500 or an Ortofon OMB 5E.

Yeah, but you and I know how to play 78s. These machines are sold to Joe and 
Jenny Shlub in WalMart so they can go home and play Granny's old 78s and make 
her young again, and they think "Boy these sound awful".

dl
> 
> 
> Iñigo Cubillo
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 4:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Mills Brothers song
> 
> 
>> While we're on this subject, can somebody try and get through the thick
> skulls
>> of the manufacturers of retro phonographs that putting the 78 speed on
> them
>> means they need flipover styli? No wonder the folks buying these things
> think
>> 78s are garbage.
>>
>> dl
>>
>> Michael Biel wrote:
>>> Royal Pemberton wrote:
>>>>> Another machine to investigate is the Alesis Masterlink.
>>>>> It's a hard disk recorder with a CD mechanism, and an
>>>>> internal editing platform with some DSP functions as well.
>>> From: "Mark L. Bardenwerper, Sr." <citroenid19 at sbcglobal.net>
>>>> Pricey, professional quality, though. Very nice.
>>> You two do realize that this excursion in this thread was started by
>>> Steve Barr explaining his quest to be able to record from his $3 garage
>>> sale phonograph if he can find some ceramic powerpoint type N8-3D
>>> replacement needles which put out a line-level output.  I don't think he
>>> is considering a budget much above $10.  Got any suggestions at that
>>> price level?
>>>
>>> I have found that there is a manufacturer now making those powerpoints
>>> again but they only have one point on them so there is no flip-over
>>> possible. There are two different ones available at about $14 each. One
>>> has a 1 mil diamond for microgroove and the other is the 3 mil Steve
>>> would need, but only in sapphire.  (Since the diamond for a 3 mil point
>>> is three times the size of a 1 mil diamond, it would bring the cost up
>>> too much, so they're not making them.)  Of course he would rather find
>>> cheaper NOS, and so would I.  I just picked up another Caliphone for
>>> Leah to use for simple playbacks, but it only had an LP point.  I hate
>>> spending $14 for a needle for a phonograph I paid $5 for!  But she does
>>> have much better equipment as well.
>>>
>>> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com