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Isn't vinyl the most popular physical medium by sales right now? Sure, 78s aren't as supported, but the first Technics turntable I clicked on can play them, and
by dehrmann 3y ago
Isn't vinyl the most popular physical medium by sales right now? Sure, 78s aren't as supported, but the first Technics turntable I clicked on can play them, and the Wirecutter has a recommendation that plays them. "Obsolete" is a stretch.
- SoftTalker 3y agoThat gave me an idea, I have some old 78s -- could I play them at 45 and then use Audacity to speed them up by 173%?
- 2023throwawayy 3y agoYes.
- dehrmann 3y agoOr play them at 33 1/3 for better resolution.
- arthur2e5 3y agoAudacity wiki (which is the official documentation and not something you can request an account for IIRC) has a page for that: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/recording_78_rpm_records.html https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/recording_78_rpm_records... Just make sure you invert the equalizer / preemphasis before you change the speed.
- extraduder_ire 3y agoShellac records need different replaceable needles, because fine pieces of grit are embedded in the record to harden it and wear down the needle. Needed because the tracking force was so high back in the day. Modern records use a so-called "microgroove", usually crystal needles in the cassette, and one or so grams of tracking force. You probably wouldn't pick anything up off a shellac record, if you tried playing it.
- wazoox 3y agoTechmoan has a video where he explains and shows that reading 78s with a microgroove head gives very bad results, low sound, high noise, and no bass. It's a workaround, not a workable solution; you need a special 78RPM head which exist but are rare and expensive. Basically the technical reason is that the 33/45 record groove is read laterally, while the 78 groove is read vertically. So both cannot be properly achieved with the same reading apparatus.