[78-L] wet playing records

[Robert M. Bratcher Jr.]

At 02:06 PM 2/11/2010, you wrote:
>Michael Biel wrote:
> >
> > The reason why British pressings have so much crackle is because they
> > used a shellac formula rich in organic fillers and these have
> > deteriorated in the damp British climate.  That was the subject of John
> > Stratton's article "Crackle" I mentioned from the BIRS Recorded Sound No
> > 39, July 1970 p655+.   You learn to be able to see the crackle, and the
> > water damage.
> >
>
>And as DB likely knows, the CBC always bought English pressings wherever
>possible, even of American recordings, and these still sound 
>marvelously quiet
>70 years later. The green library sleeves have been disintegrating for years
>but the discs are the quietest I've ever heard outside of vinyls.
>
>dl

Then why is an English Decca 78 rpm classical set I own so full of 
crackle when it's played? Did it spend part of it's life in the UK 
before winding up here in the southern US before I bought it used? I 
guess it did........