[78-L] early days of KPRC

Robert M. Bratcher Jr. rbratcherjr at yahoo.com
Thu Feb 16 13:17:40 PST 2012


Rotten? I'm sure it's because they were dubbed from 33 or78 rpm masters. Either from laquer discs or a stamper or something else in the record manufacuring process. My experience with early LP's seems to be from Columbia & RCA Once you get the EQ right they don't sound too bad.....



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>From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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>Well, at least pre-1948. I don't know how quickly radio stations began to adapt 
>to play lps. Convenience aside, the quality was pretty rotten on many of the 
>early ones.
>
>dl
>
>On 2/16/2012 3:38 PM, Mark D Mobile wrote:
>> Those are RCA turntables and the arm has a 3-mil cartridge, which makes it
>> pre-1947 or so...unless all they used the 'tables for was to play 3-mil-cut
>> commercials.
>>
>> Mark Durenberger
>


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