[78-L] Removal of hiss - a different approach

[David Lennick]

Ian G. Masters. Wonder what ever happened to him? Some of his advice was great, 
such as using the center channel output of a Dolby Pro Logic Receiver for noisy 
mono discs. In the days before sophisticated noise removal systems, this was a 
great solution (oh what the hell, time to fess up, I still use it).

He may have been influenced by a character at a Toronto station who "wet 
played" 78s for a nightly program called Reminiscing. Not that 95% of the music 
programmed on that thing was worth listening to dry or wet, and most of the 
records he played were donated by people with damp basements.

dl

Michael Biel wrote:
> 
> There once was an advice columnist in either High Fidelity or Hi-Fi 
> Stereo Review, or maybe Audio, I think it was Ian Somethingorother, who 
> about 3 or 4 issues befoe the demise of the magazine did a column on how 
> much trouble it is to play 78s.  He found that the only way he gets good 
> sound from his 78s was to play them wet, and he has to keep cleaning his 
> stylus because of all of the dirt.  I remember discussing this long, 
> long ago on the ancient history of this list back in the Cornell days, 
> and a few weeks later the magazine announced its demise.  It did not 
> announce the demise of that guy's 78 collection, nor that of any of its 
> readers who may have taken that jackass'es advice.