[78-L] whats the fate of blank cds..Marconi recording blanks..

[Steve Williams]

I have a fully functional Marconi Recordio but of course no Wilcox-Gay
blanks... (The Wilcox-Gay radio-recorders were assembled and branded by
Marconi in Canada.) I had read online that with moderately high weight
optical blanks could be used for needle cuts on home disc cutters.  So I
clamped a rotted CD-r (I'll have to make a spindle adaptor) and recorded a
minute of AM radio, and sure enough the results are excellent.  The disc
will play back fine on my Thorens TD-124 with V15MkIII 78 stylus.  In fact
it's very quiet though a bit wowwy.  I'll make a YouTube video of the
process.. Talk about retro-functionality!

The replacement for CDs will be USB sticks, which nowadays can be directly
read by most Bluray and DVD players and by TV sets and even amplifiers and
home entertainment units.  Heck there are even vacuum-tube amps on the
market with a USB slot and LCD menu readout! And in many cases the preferred
24 bit 96Khz sampling rate is supported.  I never, myself, make CDs except
on the odd occasion where I have to make an audio-only presentation at the
monthly musical film meetings.  Even then, their Panasonic Bluray player
would in fact accept USB sticks with music files at 24/96.

Steve Williams  ..

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Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 16:44:07 +1000
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>Well, I'm not too sure, as a few contacts lately have been too many
instances of CD-ROT,  so they'll eventually self->distruct anyway - luckily
I am retaining the shellac/vinyl as the source material, transferring some
of the material >to CD-R for convenience and sharing only....

Gary


> hi guys
> i just heard from panasonic that they are going to phase them out their cd
players..i make cds from 78s..editing the >music etc..are cds going to be
phased out 2?if cds get phased out and what ever takes their place can i
still edit >these music files with out cds?
>   
> lenny
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