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RE: 78's

I guess 'jump factor' is a good way to put it. They are often livelier than the slower moving media seems to be. However, I have several CD's made from 78's and they still have IT. So it, whatever it may be, probably has more to do with the recording techniques than the medium. I know that everyone will jump down my neck but just speaking from my own experience 33's only sound good for about 10 plays, if at all. They are a compromised medium favoring playing time over quality.

At the risk of seeming mystical, it seems to me that there is something beyond frequency response that gets lost by recording at slower speeds or messing with the signal very much. I think the old 78's were recorded directly to acetate or something so there wasn't much opportunity to mess them up. Look at the good sound Sheffield got with direct to disk. High quality recordings are recorded, not produced.

Rick

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