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

Steven C. Barr stevenc at interlinks.net
Wed Sep 22 20:47:51 PDT 2010


From: "Banjo Bud" <banjobud at cfl.rr.com>
> 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.
>
Victor's "Orthophonic" machines/horns may well have been the first horns
to be designed with a full understanding of how sound was recorded
and/or reproduced in "horns?!" (disallowing the huge experimental
horn that Edison tried using...?!).

Steven C. Barr 




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