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

[Royal Pemberton]

I've always wondered what the coating on the fiber base discs was made
of....anyone here know?

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 10:10 PM, Robert M. Bratcher Jr. <
rbratcherjr at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Old blanks can dry out & be noisy although for what I recorded it didn't
> matter. I even cleaned up some discs with palmtric acid on them before
> cutting them many years ago. Yep they were noisy alright. From time to time
> blanks do show up on Ebay. I've even seen the fiber base ones plus glass
> blanks too.
>
>
>
> >________________________________
> >From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> >To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> >Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 3:38 PM
> >Subject: Re: [78-L] whats the fate of blank cds..Marconi recording
> blanks..
> >
> >I have some Recordisc blanks..a bit ancient, since they're steel based and
> >Glenn Miller's picture is on the cover of the package. They'll go on
> eBzazz one
> >of these days.
> >
> >dl
> >
> >On 5/23/2012 3:56 PM, Steve Williams wrote:
> >> 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  ..
> >>
> >> Message: 1
> >> Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 16:44:07 +1000
> >> From: maceo<maceo at nugrape.net>
> >> Subject: Re: [78-L] whats the fate of blank cds..
> >> To: 78-L Mail List<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
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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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