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This sounds wonderful! Thank you. I just finished getting my Grandparents 1947 RCA Victrola Console restored, including a new stylus. I need to find some pristine 78s. Mine have all been played a lot (way back). The 47 RCA also contains a 3-band radio (AM/FM/SW) and the record changer has 2 stanchions which drop the records very accurately onto the sort of fuzzy turntable.

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Post war 78's were often not pressed using the best shellac. First thing is that a record this old - new or not - should be washed. Some of the surface noise is due to dust that got into the grooves. Second, playing them with the proper sized needle is also important.

I acquired some 78 in album box from the 40s with the original cellophane on it. I opened and played the "virgin" 78s on a modern record player. Despite being in pristine condition, they still had a lot of surface noise.

You should look into the Disc Doctor solution and brushes for cleaning 78s - far better than what you have.

Beautiful record. Thanks for sharing

Electrically recorded 78's played on good equipment with the proper needle sounded very, very good .

The clic clic of the vinyl is here ans new too

I've had a few 78's and I recorded them off of a standard turntable with Stanton 500 stylus and 45 speed, then fixed the speed in software. It sounds surprisingly good.

The word brand new means a new brand. How can this be a new brand when it is decades old?

Much more than "very good", they are "mint".

That sounds fantastic. And I was born into the peak of solid state stereo 😉 ☺️☺️☺️☺️

The Micromatic (beautiful specimen) Will play Monaural??

You need to get a line level output from the player to some sort of recording device to sync up to the video. Using a phone's microphone to evaluate this beautiful recording really doesn't do it justice. Thanks.

They sound pretty darn good on my 3 systems when played back with light tracking magnetic pickups, GE VR, Stanton and AT, and correct EQ curves. Surface noise, yes, but you have to concentrate on the reason for playback : what's in the grooves. 😊 I also have a 1926 Victor Ortonphonic Consolette with an excellent sound box that I enjoy .

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I have an acoustic Christmas record from the 1910s that was stored in an improvised sleeve consisting of two sheets of cardboard taped tightly together. I have since stored it in a plastic sleeve. I'm going to guess the record was only played a handful of times back in the day on a bamboo needle because when I tried it on my modern electronic setup it sounded absolutely phenomenal (considering it's acoustic). It was very much like your recording in the sense that it had practically no noise in the background.

Sounds pretty good.

I think you have put the lie to an urban legend. This legend says the reason 78s sounded so crackly was they added some sort of abrasive to keep the needle sharp and that abrasive made the crackly sounds. Kooky theory but I hadn't seen any real debunking of it until I listened to the recording you played thanks!

Beautiful

I wish that some day someone would go to the trouble of making shellac 78's the way they were made so long ago, from recording to final pressing. That would be the only true way to see what they would have sound like when brand new, by making new record with a shellac mixture that was used back in the day and recording in a similar fashion. It would even be interesting if someone was to not only record using the original techniques but even try recording using more updated techniques and more modern technology just to see how good one of the old gramophones could sound. I'm willing to bet the original equipment is still out there, sitting in old barns and sheds just waiting for a good reconditioning and finally have a wax disc carved with new music for the first time in 60 or 70 years.

What a wonderful find. very enjoyable

I love spinning 78's. On the right gear they come alive just like in this video.

Those Micromatic turntables are awesome! I have one to.

I have pristine record made in 1918.

Nice records. Great find. These sound especially clean. Or as they used to say: "a noiseless recording." I've collected 78's for nearly 30 years. I cringed when you turned the pages the way you did in the video. I had done the same thing years ago thinking nothing of it and cracked the outer edge of the records that was closest to the binding. I try to always be sure the record is as far away from the album binding as possible when turning the pages to avoid causing those outer stress cracks. Happy collecting.

we had a Magnavox console when I was a little kid....I spent many magical hours listening to the records....

A direct feed instead of recording a speaker would be better, but to truly get the best out of a 78 you need a better player, one with a direct output correct equalization and speed regulation. I'm sure the unplayed record its destroying sounds nice otherwise.

I’m always blown away by the quality of the bass that some 78s can have. I always felt like primitive playback equipment, especially phonographs, probably lacked the ability to reproduce the bass very well, but on my modern (yet pretty modest) set-up the bass can rock the house

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Shellac and filler, of which 78's are made, are extremely porous and hygroscopic material and water immediately penetrates the record deep under the surface. Washing a record with water does irreversible damage to a 78. To try and dry the record with a cloth or leaving it in a dry warm place is not going to do it. But the fatal effect of water on a 78 is not immediately visible; you'll think the record is clean and dry but the destruction will only show over time. Water, trapped inside the record, will cause the shellac/filler to expand; that is the reason why so few records from the 1920's (and later) are still really shiny, even if they have never been played; because they have not been kept in a dry environment. When new, all records, even the worst pressings, were shiny and without surface noise. It's getting wet and/or being kept in a damp environment that over time has deteriorated the surface, ranging from slight dulling to heavy gritting. Cleaning a record with water and not vacuum drying it will severely add to that deterioration. The only safe way to clean a 78 is to use special 78 cleaning fluid and a vacuum record cleaner/dryer; they can be expensive, yes, but it is the very best way to clean an preserve a 78, many of which (at least in my collection) are worth more than such a machine! Only an unplayed record, always kept in a dry environment and never been in touch with water can sound like when it was new - except for laminated 78's such as late 20's, early 30's Columbias and it's sister labels Okeh, Harmony, Clarion etc. which were made from a non-hygroscopic early plastic, much less sensitive to water and unplayed ones usually sound the same as when they came fresh out of the factory 90+ years ago. Playing them with modern sound equipment and a fitting stylus will ofren reveal a sound quality and frequency range which is hardly inferior to a modern recording.

The sound is fantastic.

The biggest problem with accurately playback of 78 RPM discs is the equalization. Long before standard equalization was introduced around 1954, every record production company had its own form of equalization that was applied during the cutting process. There were nearly 150 different equalization curves and the only way to ensure accurate playback was to use the same filtering as was used when the disc was cut. Modern phonographic pre-amps all employ RIAA equalization, but any disc produced before 1954 would likely not have been cut with this filter curve (it isn't certain at what point the RIAA equalization was formally adopted) so any 78 RPM record played on a modern turntable will not sound the way it was intended or recorded at the time.

Hi! Do you have any tips for a swingtime bird model 335? I tried your tip. However, since the bird hangs from the center hole in the bracket, I had to make two loops so the bird would face forward. It slowed it down but it was stuttering a lot. I also tried a couple metal jewelry connector hoops and it also stuttered and was no quieter. The bird is hollow so I also tried adding a few small items as weights, but that did not slow or quiet it, and I was concerned anyway that the extra small bit of weight might adversely affect the motor. I think I may next try connecting a string thru both outside holes in the bar and hanging the bird off the string in the middle. My guess is this will not work though since the double loops did not work.

did i just hear sumones finger prints are left over from the acid in their sweat thats cool

great vintage sound

A friend had a small weekend program on local radio station where he played mostly records from 1950s. On occasion he would play older 78 rpm records and the station had top notch equipment for record playing including 78 oriented turntables. He played some pristine 78s one day that were so clean you could not tell if they were records or CDs. 78 rpm records were some of the best media believe it or not because they traveled ‘ fast ‘ ( 78 revolutions per minute ) for steady speed and they had big coarse grooves with a lot of sound in them. I had some 45 rpm records and 78 rpm of the same recordings and the 78s were WAY better.

Thank you so much

So it's pretty inconclusive. And bad

Do not talking too much sir..borring...

Personally, I blame the record player for making a tune sound crappy than the actual record itself.

I've some 78rpm records and those are used and old still I love to listen to them.

They also sound amazing on the original console players of the time the records were produced.

Folks, keep your fingers and thumb off of vinyl or shellac, etc records. I will not subscribe to this channel as he sets a bad example.

It doesen't make all that difference between old and played and old but unplayed...

a hole 4 min. before anything plays............

There are new high quality 78 speed turntables with high quality cartridge and stylus. If you are a collector, that would be an excellent for maintaining the quality of your records. What you played sounds excellent, but for how long? Rega, Denon, and Teac all make very good ones, but you would need an expert to choose the best sounding cartridge. Schiit makes a top notch preamp to send to a amplifier (every price point), and speakers are also. I have records (33.3) that I bought in 1963 that sound just like new with my Thorens turntable with a Vessel line contact cartridge 1.4 gram. You don't have to do all this, but there are degrees that will protect your records for life with a warm accurate sound.

Shellac 78s have wider grooves. When using a needle/cartridge designed for vinyl, what's happening is the needle is scraping the surface of the record between the grooves rather gliding along the walls of the groove. This is what's causing the additional noise.

Would be interesting to know which is the equalization curve applied by the turntable during the play