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

[David Breneman]

--- On Wed, 9/22/10, Banjo Bud <banjobud at cfl.rr.com> wrote:

> 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.

The Orthophonic reproducers had higher-compliance
diaphragms which traveled in and out in a plane.
rather than bowing in the middle.  They moved more
like a modern headphone driver and could reproduce
a greater frequency range as a result.