[78-L] early days of KPRC

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Please define stamper stretch. This is a term I have not encountered 
previously.

joe salerno


On 2/16/2012 3:57 PM, David Lennick wrote:
> A lot of early Columbia lps were just rushed onto the market, and most of them
> had been dubbed direct from 33RPM lacquer originals without a tape master. The
> EQ is all over the road and many discs suffer from stamper stretch or noisy end
> grooves. Victor didn't produce an lp till 1950 although the low numbered discs
> all have D9 matrix numbers, so at least they were working on having a library
> when they finally started issuing lps. Some early Londons are absolute horrors.
>
> dl
>
> On 2/16/2012 4:17 PM, Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote:
>> 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.....
>>
>>
>>
>>> ________________________________
>>> 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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Joe Salerno