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I’m confused about how you mean by your sentence. Is it that you did not realise that specialist equipment is needed to cut a record? (That is you thought the

I’m confused about how you mean by your sentence. Is it that you did not realise that specialist equipment is needed to cut a record? (That is you thought the equipment is more commonplace?) Or is it that you didn’t realised that the equipment is available to be purchased for home use? (That is you thought the equipment is less commonplace?)

hansonkd 2y ago
> specialist equipment is needed to cut a record I remember there was a Soviet practice of cutting records into old XRays (called "ribs") as a way to bootleg them. I think those cutting machines were made from retrofitted old phonographs.
- 3eb7988a1663 2y ago
  "Bone records" (https://www.npr.org/2016/01/09/462289635/bones-and-grooves-weird-secret-history-of-soviet-x-ray-music https://www.npr.org/2016/01/09/462289635/bones-and-grooves-w...). For black market uses, the consumers was probably willing to bear dreadful audio quality. For a modern aficionado, the quality must be good enough to give some justification for the endeavor.