[78-L] Dumb Gennetts (was: Acoustic/electrical recordings on same disc)

[Malcolm Rockwell]

Who wrote it and what issue is it in?
Malcolm

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Al Haug wrote:
> An article in 78 Quarterly stated that Gennett regularly "dumbed down" their
> sound quality so the records would sound ok on the wind-up phonographs that
> their hillbilly and blues customers were likely to have, much to the chagrin
> of their engineers. Varsity reissues of this material often sounds better.
>
> 2010/1/8 Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com>
>