I'm wondering as to the criteria used by those restoring old recordings
regarding the target listener is a speaker or headphone user. This affects
the amount of background noise that has to be removed to give the younger
listener unused to 78s a comfortable listening experience. My focus here is
on acoustically recorded laterally cut 78 sides. It seems to me that the
younger users are either listing through decent earbuds or terrible
computer speakers. Comments?
Steve Smolian
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