[78-L] 78s (sort of) and Cylinders in the news

[Sean Miller]

There is something called an "ACT" reproducer.  It uses a Stanton 500 and any available custom styli for 2 and 4 minute cylinders, there is also a "doorknob" sapphire available for brown wax cylinder playback.  It fits into the carriage of any Edison machine and has two RCA outputs, it's already wired for vertical playback.  Results from this thing can be amazing, I've had one for years and I use it all the time for transferring cylinders to digital on my Edison Triumph.  A properly serviced and adjusted Edison cylinder machine will give you great results with very little (if any) flutter or wow.  Listen to the Living Era CD of Billy Murray sometime, I provided several transfers for it using this machine and the ACT.

Sean

On Jul 19, 2010, at 2:02 PM, Michael Biel wrote:

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> 
>> According to the article this setup with an amplifier had a much better fidelity than an old horn. 
> Generally, electrical playing of ANY record would be better than ANY 
> playing of the record on a horn machine.  Somebody was making a device 
> with a magnetic cartridge which would fit easily into the reproducer 
> holder on most Edison machines.  It might still be available.  This 
> does, however, depend on the quietness of your cylinder machine 
> mechanism.  George Blacker used many decades ago an outboard tone arm 
> made of a very, very long dowel which would have minimum tracking 
> error.  I think this was what he used for the two LPs of cylinders he 
> produced for Folkways.
> 
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
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