We ended up buying and installing a special 78 rpm cartridge, and the Christmas Carol records do sound better.
Andy looking at cartridge with flashlight.
Shellac records are inherently noisier than the later vinyl ones, so the sound will never be perfect, but it’s not bad. According to the Postal Service the new set is already in Albuquerque, so if the records aren’t broken we’ll listen to the excerpts in both sets and put the best ones into our final version.
The adventure continues.
January 13, 2014
I hope the records arrive in good shape. I don’t even know when the last time I listened to anything on an old style record.
It turns out this new set was 45’s. They seem to be in great shape, but we need to buy an adapter to play them.
oh! i hope they’re not broken. it is an adventure!
you both are amazing. tekkie wonders. at least to ME!!! XOXO
We’re amateurs compared to audiophiles. Andy subscribes to Stereophile just for laughs. Those guys think nothing of spending $100,000 for their equipment. I hope their ears are better than ours. We probably wouldn’t be able to hear the differences they talk about.
Pictures show nerd at work. Remember NERD is a title given only to the special few esoteric smartest people.
I agree we’re nerds, but I’m not so sure we’re all that smart. 🙂
This is still one of my favorite family pictures:
However, whatever rings your bell is fine with me 🙂
Maybe your next project will be putting the sounds onto a ?MP3 and putting up here for us to listen – whatever the noise is…
I may do that for an excerpt sometime. The trouble is our computer speakers aren’t that good either. Andy just said “they suck”.