[78-L] Interesting article about remastering and sound restoration for the Mosaic's Artie Shaw Box Set

[Michael Shoshani]

Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:
> Heated stylus was actually devised for cutting lacquer
> discs, not wax.  

Well, yes and no. Universal Recording (Zonophone) was using an arc to heat the stylus in the early 20th century; the reasoning was that if the stylus was heated and thus melted the wax rather than incising it, they would not be violating the Graphophone patents.

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