[78-L] Dumb Gennetts

[Malcolm Rockwell]

Thanks, Al.
So Gennett "dumbed down" the stampers? If the Varsity pressings are 
better that would mean that the mother was untouched and new stampers 
were pulled from the "clean" mother. Still can't see how low-end 
response would be cut doing that.
Malcolm

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Al Haug wrote:
> Kennedy in 78Q number 8, page 47. Opinion on Varsity is my own.
>
> 2010/1/8 Malcolm Rockwell <malcolm at 78data.com>
>
>   
>> Who wrote it and what issue is it in?
>> Malcolm
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>> Al Haug wrote:
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>>> An article in 78 Quarterly stated that Gennett regularly "dumbed down"
>>>       
>> their
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>>> sound quality so the records would sound ok on the wind-up phonographs
>>>       
>> that
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>>> their hillbilly and blues customers were likely to have, much to the
>>>       
>> chagrin
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>>> of their engineers. Varsity reissues of this material often sounds
>>>       
>> better.
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>>> 2010/1/8 Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com>
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