Because you don't archive that way. You preserve the sound of the original
discs. Technology will move on and provide better and better restoration
techniques. If you archive the restored version only you take away the
chance of better results in the future. Can you also imagine the amount of
work needed for 100000's of 78s? And of course it's double the storage
space.
As for "no sound quality is lost, only noise". That is open to question and
is down to how sympatheticly its done. It really easy to damage the
original sound. You can't rely on automatic settings.
Archive.org are doing this to what has pretty much become the international
standard for digitisation - unrestored transfer at 96k 24bit they also go
the extra mile with different eq curves and styli.
It's a great project.
On Sat, 30 Jun 2018, 16:52 6295LARGE, <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Great collection and effort, but why no click and crackle removal? No sound
> quality is lost, only noise.
>
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 1:37 AM, Brewster Kahle <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > Paul-- thank you for posting the helpful article.
> >
> > Clark-- the condition of the 78's from the Boston Collection are quite
> > good-- I am guessing they did not circulate, but they are not mint.
> >
> > We have a uncoming collection from a distributor, so they are mint.
> > They are from the 40's and early 50's. So looking forward to those as
> > well.
> >
> >
> > We are looking for the best we can get.
> >
> > onward!
> >
> > -brewster
> >
> >
> >
> > On 6/26/18 4:25 PM, Paul T. Jackson wrote:
> > > Here is a note about the Boston records as well as the 78s project
> > > which include 20 other collections.
> > > https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/boston-public-
> > library-will-digitize-200000-vintage-recordings-180966931/
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 6/26/2018 3:33 PM, Clark Johnsen wrote:
> > >> Just askin': Has any attention been paid to getting unworn or un-noisy
> > >> sides for this laudable preservation effort? When I read just now
> > >> that your
> > >> source was a public library where patrons would have been borrowing
> them
> > >> and/or playing them on any sort of machine, it made me wonder. By the
> > >> way,
> > >> are you in Boston?
> > >>
> > >> On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 3:52 PM, Brewster Kahle <[log in to unmask]
> >
> > >> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> for the fanatics (well, like me), we have another 6,000 78rpm sides
> up
> > >>> on archive.org as part of the Great 78 Project. (now 74k digitized
> > >>> <https://archive.org/details/georgeblood> total)
> > >>>
> > >>> I was able to find dates for 91% of them, and volunteers have
> > >>> started on
> > >>> others.
> > >>>
> > >>> Lots of Victors and Deccas, almost all from the Boston Public Library
> > >>>
> > >>> link to the new ones:
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> https://archive.org/details/georgeblood?and%5B%5D=
> > >>> publicdate%3A%5B2018-06-10+TO+*%5D&sin=&sort=-publicdate
> > >>>
> > >>> onward!
> > >>>
> > >>> -brewster
> > >>>
> > >
> >
>
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