On 09/05/2011, Steven Smolian wrote:
> I doubt it. Old vinyl (50-60 years) has problems with evaporating
> plasticizer. What were once quiet surfaces have become noisier. At
> least, many of them. I expect those that haven't will become so. Tests
> are needed to confirm or deny this, but it has been my experience
> close to 100% of the time. I'm old enough to recall what they sounded
> like when they were new. Right now, the new "love" of vinyl may be
> skewing opinions with wishful thinking.
>
> I suspect all records, 78s and LPs have ageing and oxidization issues.
> The article of what 78s are made of, in the present ARSC journal,
> which is preliminary, is a decent start but omits from its testing
> data if the records stored in the vault were, in fact, hermetically
> sealed and differed in some way from identical unplayed copies exposed
> to the atmosphere. The effects of playing is a third level of
> analysis.
>
> As to the fellow in Brooklyn, he is using regrinds, OK for records
> with 4 db of dynamic range but unsuited for classical, jazz and spoken
> word. Spoken word is the most prone to suffering from accumulated
> background noise- there's no "rum-ti-tum" to mask it.
>
Likewise solo piano, which I think is the genre that gained most from
the introduction of CD.
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Don Cox
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