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On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 4:22 PM, David Lewis <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Yes, Dick. I wondered that too. As we all know here, with the right stylus, > tracking force and a clean 78 there is > nothing like that sound -- a little limited in some ways, but present, > booming and crackling (hopefully!) with electricity. > Second that sound! Twelve or fifteen years ago I wrote a column on that topic, for an audio magazine yet. [EXCERPT] Owing to this generation's rejection of noise on recordings—something of a joke given modern urban environments—not to mention those ubiquitous cell phones—none of them [reissues] convey the muscle and blood of 78s owing to fierce noise-reduction routines that further etiolate the music. So from this tainted evidence you have drawn some very weird, fallacious conclusions. Well, shame! And *do you ever *have a surprise coming. Because 78s pack a wallop rarely heard otherwise. http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue25/cjdiarires.htm clark