[78-L] Pathe recording process

[Ron L'Herault]

Pathe did put out the same recording on several different sized disks.  The
more you paid, the bigger the disk and the better it sounded.

Ron L

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Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 12:05 PM
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Subject: [78-L] Pathe recording process

Forgive me if this has been discussed before (I couldn't find an easy  
way to search the 78-L archives), but I've been wondering again about  
Pathe's acoustic recording process of creating a large cylinder master  
which was then dubbed to disc format. My question is, why do it