[78-L] [MOCAPS-L] How Victor Dealers promoted the firstElectrically Recorded records in 1925

[Banjo Bud]

So what was different about the sound boxes of the acoustical Orthophonic 
Victrolas, and the older models?  To my ear the Orthos (at least the 
Credenza model) sounded almost as good as the early electrics.

Bud

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From: "Steven C. Barr" <stevenc at interlinks.net>
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firstElectrically Recorded records in 1925

> From: "Ron Roscoe" <rroscoe at MIT.EDU>
>> So people were listening to the new electrically recorded discs on
>> their old Victrolas using their old soundboxes?
>> Must have sounded just great when the stiff mechanism distorted like
>> crazy on loud or bass passages!!
>>
> A LOT! This is why Columbia could sell acoustic Harmony records for
> a number of years after electric recording became standard...?! Also,
> keep in mind that most folks were quite satisfied if their new record
> played the song the label suggested it did; "high fidelity" equipment
> didn't appear until (IIRC) after WWII?!
>> Bruce, what is this 78-L and how can I join it?
>>
> It is an e-mail-based list which (in theory) connects the world's
> collectors/accumulators (my group!) of 78 rpm phonorecords,
> allowing us to exchange e-mail messages on that subject. You
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> web site.
>
> Steven C. Barr
> stevenc at interlinks.net
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