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@ProFriend
5 жыл бұрын
Transcription discs were also used by the old radio networks (CBS, ABC, NBC) to distribute programs to areas that didn't have access to the shared AT&T Long Lines network feeds. The records were delivered by couriers. Most of the programs were things like soap operas and radio dramas because the didn't go out of date quickly like a current events or news program would. On quad records, I used to have some of CBS Laboratories early test discs kicking around years ago, but sold them off cheap at a local flea market as I recall. I'm not a collector, just a former broadcast tech.
@billkeithchannel
5 жыл бұрын
I would spend hours as a child in the early 70's listening to 78's and LP's at the 16 RPM speed. It would make music sound so creepy like a TV or movie soundtrack or haunted house.
@caddelworth6794
5 жыл бұрын
The section on quadraphonic records sure brought back some memories! As an 18-year-old, I had a Saturday job in a local department store. Their 'audio' department at the time (next door to 'my' department) sold both SQ and CD-4 'record players' and the sales staff sounded almost as baffled as the potential customers, and the latter's questions about 'which system is better?' invariably got at best a confused and muddled comparison of the systems or a 'well, you need to go by the system that has the records/music you like …' (!!!). Clearly the entire home quadrophony enterprise was doomed to failure. Thank God!!!
@JamieRoberts77
5 жыл бұрын
Song of the day - Roads - Portishead
@eduardleon9636
5 жыл бұрын
Track of the day fantasy Aldo Nova
@TheIgnatzz
6 жыл бұрын
When I was growing up, every single record player had a "16" setting, and I never saw a 16 record in my life. It used to mystify me.
@paulbunch8388
4 жыл бұрын
Ignatz Mouse every vintage stacker player I have seen had a 16 setting. It’s weird.
@exiletomars
4 жыл бұрын
I own a 16 and 2/3 record that was for education about france.
@sobolanul96
3 жыл бұрын
@@paulbunch8388 the 16 setting was used not intended for music, but for speech, like foreign language lessons, children stories, theater, etc. They were somewhat common in the eastern block.
@sombrasniper1694
3 жыл бұрын
How old r u?
@jari2018
3 жыл бұрын
We also has a small Luma combo with speaker record player and radio in one set . I used to play 33rpm at half the speed .Same experience I have never seen 16 rpm record in my life -
@LandondeeL
5 жыл бұрын
My Dad wouldn't get us a quadraphonic set-up. I tried to tell him the Quad was the wave of the future, to which he replied DO YOU HAVE FOUR EARS???
@scubadiva666
5 жыл бұрын
I was a teen right when quadrophonic was a thing, and our local hard-rock station's slogan was "ROCK YOURS IN QUAD" for several years; apparently they broadcast in quad, but I never got to test this out. Actually, at that time we never even had a record player.
@shaggybreeks
5 жыл бұрын
Radio and records are different. @@scubadiva666
@shaggybreeks
5 жыл бұрын
Oh, man... I used to go around and around with some guy arguing just like your dad. They don't seem to understand that the *source* of a sound is not the ear. How can you tell if some sound is coming from behind you? Can you make something sound like it's moving from front to back with two speakers?
@scubadiva666
5 жыл бұрын
Duh, @shaggybreeks. I was saying home audio wasn't a priority at all for my dad, who was an accountant. We listened to the radio in the car.
@captaincinema5066
5 жыл бұрын
@@shaggybreeks Actually, you kinda can. Dolby's virtual surround system uses psychoacoustic and phase manipulation to produce quite an effective surround sound simulation with two speakers. Unlike discrete channels with speakers behind you, the processor chip can create the aural illusion that sound is indeed coming from behind you. The drawback is that you need to be sitting equidistant from the two front speakers, or pretty close to that sweet spot. Move off it and the illusion gets less and less convincing. The trick is used in all sorts of sound playback equipment -- radios, computer sound, TVs and even cheap boom boxes. Dolby used it in their two channel optical soundtrack for film, where they use phase manipulation to encode a surround channel in the two analog channels recorded on the film. Upon playback the cinema processor decoder was then able to extract the encoded surround channel and send it to the single surround channel which consisted of speaker along the sides and back of the theatre. That phase matrix, btw, was actually stolen from Sansui's Vario-matrix II which was the process used to record (encode) Quadraphonic audio (the QS version) on LPs. Difference between Sansui Vario-matrix II and Dolby's cinema sound system is that Dolby modified their cinema processor so instead of having a Left Front/Right Front /Left Back/Right Back, as in the Quadraphonic configuration, Dolby was happy with only a single surround channel instead of two and put three channels behind the screen -- Left Screen, Center Screen, Right Screen plus the Rear Surround, mimicking the way magnetic sound-on-film played back in cinemas a decade earlier (in 35mm - it was Left, Center Right behind the screen plus Surround, i.e., 4 discrete channels; in 70mm, it was 5 behind the screen: Left, Left Center, Center, Right Center, Right plus Surround i.e, 6 discrete channels). But for reasons too numerous to mention, mag sound on film was another audio process that was relegated to the technology dust heap, but when Dolby wanted to put Stereo back in the theatres, they dug out the old Quadraphonic system used for LPs, and that is how we got analog stereo in cinemas before the advent of digital sound. Dolby's modification of Sansui's QS system also probably had a lot to do with not infringing on Sansui's patents. Quadraphonic sound on records was a bit more popular than the video here implies. Almost all of my friends in college had some form of it, especially anyone who was interested in good audio. There was plenty of content out there, as virtually all labels picked on of the formats and went with it. If memory serves me, I think the Sansui know as the QS system had the most labels and the more popular. The CD-4 system technically was a very sophisticated (and complicated) system and more expensive as it relied on adding a carrier frequency of, I believe it was, 35KHz on the record, a specialized cartridge and needle that could reproduce that high a frequence at a time when phono cartridges were struggling to reproduce the higher end of the audio spectrum let alone 15kHz beyond it. The system also required a decoder to read the ultra-high frequency carrier. And play those records with a standard cartridge and needle or even one that was not meticulously calibrated and that 35kHz carrier "tone" would be worn right off it. Not only was the fact that there were three competing systems, the marketing was aslo unnecessarily confusing. The Sony system, as the video pointed out, moniker-ed their quad system "SQ" while the labels using the Sansui system labeled theirs "QS" (how's THAT for making it confusing). They couldn't even settle on how to spell the name itself You would see it on some records and in print spelled "QuadrAphonic Sound" and in other places, even in the same magazines, spelled "QuadrOphonic." Talk about not getting their act together. But again, to slightly contradict the leaning in the video, For about a strong 5 to 7 years, Quadraphonic was quite popular with lots of content across all genres of music and record labels and for those years the was also plenty of hardware available. Electronic manufacturers were making Quadraphonic receivers with four amplifiers and usually at least two of the decoders built in, many with all three. I once saw Lafayette Radio offering headsets that had two big cup-like earpieces that had two transducers in each -- speaker one facing the ear from the front and the other from behind, vola! real quadraphonic headsets. I never heard them myself, it but supposedly it was able to send the two channels (front and rear channels) to each ear, each channel aimed at the front and rear of the ear. Interesting concept to be sure. How it worked, I couldn't tell you. Point being, the public's response to Quadraphonic sound and playback systems was fairly enthusiastic. And while a Quadraphonic setup did cost more -- you needed the extra amplifier and speakers, there was a poor man's version that let you get surround information without the need for an extra two amplifiers. ElectroVoice made a box which basically just phase inverted the phase of the Left and Right channels of the normal stereo signal coming from a stereo amplifier and fed it to one or two surround speakers and bingo, any out of phase information on the stereo record would come out of the rear speakers. It didn't decode encoded quad matrixed track records precisely as would a decoder specific to the system that recorded it -- the stereo soundfield would not necessarily place instruments exactly where the recording engineer placed them in a quadraphonic mixing session, but it did open up the playback to a full 360 degree surround soundfield. You did hear a marked special enhancement from almost any recording, even those not specifically mixed and recorded in one of the quad systems (all recording include a whole spectrum of phase shifting caused by the room itself. Sounds reflecting from the room environment reach the microphone in modified phase timing from the direct sound. Separate that information electrically from the direct sound and send it to surround speakers and you then are in the room where the recording was made and that room is all around you. It is quite amazing how open any recording will sound if you extract that out of phase information. Once my quad system was set up, I played everything in Quad -- quad recorded LPs and standard LPs; there was no reason to ever take it down -- it made everything sound so more spacious and instrument locations more defined in the soundfield. I loved the way it created ambient sound from the rear speaker from literally all stereo recordings. Then when Dolby ProLogic came on the scene, and later Digital 5.1, I was practically all ready to go.
@reidwelch8419
5 жыл бұрын
Our home was built in 1974. Every room is fitted in its ceiling with quad speakers. The Study contains a Seeburg 100 disc player. Used to be (it is gone now, ach) a Marantz quad receiver. The 100 disc player can be controlled by a telephone-dial type selector box from upstairs or downstairs. The Study also contains, one in each of its four corners, a huge JBL boxed, single-driver loudpeaker. They are hidden in built-in cabinetry.
@Orcastruck
3 жыл бұрын
Dang thats pretty cool
@graceamodeo1587
2 жыл бұрын
That is so cool.
@AlbertBenajam-ww1db
3 ай бұрын
If you look up NY TIMES magazine or Sunday arts section you'll see ads f0r this system that from a sort of jukebox could play LPS or radio throughout house The remotes did have atelephone like dial to pick selections. I recall these were called BOLTON SYSTEMS.
@Littlebill85
5 жыл бұрын
We had 16 rpm aluminum, records from WW2 that were about 20". They were transcripts of radio programs. As the stylus neared the center the speed was slower and the sound quality went down gradually. To cover for this the flip side would start at the middle and play outward and the sound gradually got better. This avoided the sharp sound quality change between sides.
@memyname1771
5 жыл бұрын
@@suburban60sKid, unfortunately, I must disagree concerning DAT. The format does qualify as a "failed" format. It failed due to corporate greed. The monopolists who owned the both recording industry and owned congress forced regulations that prevented companies from selling DAT recorders that could make multiple copies from other DAT machines. The format failed due to the high cost of recorders that were useless for what they were intended to do and high cost of media. CDs drove the final nail into their coffin when computers were excluded from those limitations. Regarding the DAT tapes used for computer storage, they were mainly for tape backup of network servers. See Wikipedia: "In the late 1980s, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) unsuccessfully lobbied against the introduction of DAT devices into the U.S. Initially, the organization threatened legal action against any manufacturer attempting to sell DAT machines in the country. It later sought to impose restrictions on DAT recorders to prevent them from being used to copy LPs, CDs, and prerecorded cassettes. One of these efforts, the Digital Audio Recorder Copycode Act of 1987 (introduced by Sen. Al Gore and Rep. Waxman), instigated by CBS Records president Walter Yetnikoff, involved a technology called CopyCode and required DAT machines to include a chip to detect attempts to copy material recorded with a notch filter,[4] meaning that copyrighted prerecorded music, whether analog or digital, whether on LP, cassette, or DAT, would have distorted sound resulting from the notch filter applied by the publisher at the time of mastering for mass reproduction. A National Bureau of Standards study showed that not only were the effects plainly audible, but that it was not even effective at preventing copying. This opposition by CBS softened after Sony, a DAT manufacturer, bought CBS Records in January 1988. By June 1989, an agreement was reached, and the only concession the RIAA would receive was a more practical recommendation from manufacturers to Congress that legislation be enacted to require that recorders have a Serial Copy Management System to prevent digital copying for more than a single generation.[5] This requirement was enacted as part of the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992, which also imposed taxes on DAT recorders and blank media. However, the computer industry successfully lobbied to have personal computers exempted from that act, setting the stage for massive consumer copying of copyrighted material on materials like recordable CDs and by extension, filesharing systems such as Napster.[6]" With the development of recording methods for printing, audio recording, and video recording, the companies that owned the recording equipment have pushed for strong copyright laws to maintain their monopolies. Using the justification that there would a decrease in creative thinking if artists were not protected, laws were passed and then the companies bought the works from the artists and the companies reaped the benefits. Companies that record and distribute the work of artists now have a lifetime of income without doing a bit of creative work. These companies will do everything thay can to ensure that a recording format will fail if that format might cut into theri profits. When we stop letting the copyright laws go beyond fair profit for the artist for creative work for a limited time, then we will be able to see which formats succeed or fail due to technical merits rather than corporate greed.
@daemonwhitebeard6590
5 жыл бұрын
If you still have those aluminium discs, they could be worth a small mint. Have them appraised and insure them for the maximum amount.
@daveidmarx8296
6 жыл бұрын
I've heard Edison Diamond Discs played at a friend's house (he restored an original Edison Phonograph). To say they sound amazing would be an understatement. Very low vinyl noise and much fuller fidelity than standard 78s, the sound was so much better than any 78 I've ever heard (and I have a few hundred of them). It was just an incredible experience at the age of 47 to finally see one of those machines in action and to recognize how superior it was to the 78 format.
@bingola45
6 жыл бұрын
There's NO 'vinyl noise' on a Diamond Disc. It isn't made of vinyl.
@daveidmarx8296
6 жыл бұрын
bingola45 Touché! Let's call it "surface noise" then.
@RolandHutchinson
6 жыл бұрын
They are also louder than the standard 78s when played on a purely mechanical phonograph. That of course also helps to get the music up over any surface noise -- a great advantage of the hill-and-dale recording technology.
@jimwood8527
5 жыл бұрын
I also have heard Diamond Disks at a friend's house (he also has a large collection of restored theremins). The sound quality is astounding for that time period.
@BixLives32
5 жыл бұрын
Yes they do sound good. See the explanation above. And, um, they are not even vinyl. They are shellac, but GOOD shellac!
@dasboot5903
5 жыл бұрын
I still remember my neighbors, they had a Soviet-made electric gramophone with the speed selector containing 16 rpm .... WoW)))) Unfortunately or fortunately .... the were NO records @ 16 rpm available in my country !!!! :o))
@v8pilot
5 жыл бұрын
All UK record players had 16⅔rpm speed - but such records were essentially never sold in the UK.
@MARTIN201199
3 жыл бұрын
May be it was an open line to Moscow
@peterpaszczak4013
3 жыл бұрын
@@v8pilot NOT ACCURATE THERE, THEY WERE GENERALLY MADE FOR SPEECHES , I REMEMBER SEEING LPS OF WINSTON AND JFK IN THE SHOPS IN THE UK AND ON UK LABELS
@v8pilot
3 жыл бұрын
@@peterpaszczak4013 I said they were *essentially* never sold in the UK. Much of my adolescence was spent in record shops but I only once saw a 16 ⅔ rpm disc - I think it was a story being read out.
@peterpaszczak4013
3 жыл бұрын
@@v8pilot your just contradicting yourself, essentially.
@ziqfriq
3 жыл бұрын
My Thorens TD125, made in the 1970's, had 16 RPM. I believe it was still used at the time for speech, like "talking books", something you didn't cover. I modified the oscillator to make 16 into 78, much more useful to me--though it needs a little push to get started. On a subsequent model, TD126, Thorens did the same. The 4 channel systems were all compatible with existing stereo systems, though sometimes might sound a little weird. The CD4 system used a high frequency subcarrier mixed in with the regular audio to encode the rear channels. It was known as "discrete 4 channel", and had the best channel separation. But not all cartridges at the time were capable of extracting the high frequency information. The other two were matrixing systems, giving at best 6dB separation front to back. Most of the reason this died off was probably competition between the various systems. To set up a 4 channel system you needed not only the four amps and speakers, but total buy-in to one system. Switching decoders was not very practical, unlike with today's digital surround decoders (which handle Dolby, and all the other systems in use at the time you buy your a/v processor or receiver, can't remember the names). The advantage of a matrixing system was that, once set up, most standard stereo recordings contain ambiance information obtainable by subtracting the L an r channels, which is what the matrix systems did.
@Seamus322
5 жыл бұрын
How about "Highway Hi-Fi?"- It was Chrysler's attempt to put a turntable in a car's glovebox in the '50's. Didn't quite work out...
@whaduzitmatr
5 жыл бұрын
See his section on "16 2/3 records"
@hebneh
4 жыл бұрын
These didn't fit in the glovebox; they were installed below the dashboard.
@seed_drill7135
5 жыл бұрын
16 2/3 was primarily for books on record. But that was also the speed of the under console record players offered by Chrysler in the 50's.
@douglasskaalrud6865
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the information about the Edison Diamond Discs. I have an upright cabinet Diamond Disc player I restored and about 30 discs. The discs are just as you described-really thick and really heavy; I always wondered what they were made of. The tone arm/horn are run by a gear and rack that is an ingenious design and the cabinet has this terrific mahogany smell that is made the restoration effort worth it. The discs sound surprisingly good and the previous owner had some good taste when buying new recordings. It's always fun to crank up the Edison and listen to some real old-time songs. The surprising thing is that the antique store I bought it from had marked it down next to nothing because it was dirty and looked disused.
@wateryblaze
5 жыл бұрын
I am a retired electronic tech and was born in 1950. I had my own clockwork gramophone when I was 6 or 7. It played a 4" yellow vinyl record, similar in thickness to a "78" and had nursery rhymes on them. The gramophone was made of painted thin sheet metal with pictures of the characters from the nursery rhymes around it. You wound it with a clock key through a hole in the platter. One record had "Farmer in the Dell" on one side and "Three Little Indians" on the other. There were several other discs but that was my favorite. It used "78" needles, which needed replacing every few records and I was only allowed "quiet" volume needles. It was shaped like a tear-drop with the platter at the wide end and the hollow tone arm and head with a mica diaphragm fitted at the small end. It went "missing" when my parents split up later in my 7th year... like lots of my stuff. Another record format was the "talking book" type that played a 12" record at 16 2/3 RPM. In New Zealand, we had them issued to the schools with Shakespeare's plays and sonnets on them among other things. That was in the mid 60s and like most of those you mentioned, they were replaced by tapes and later on the cassette. The "8 Track" never became popular in NZ although a few imported cars still had them fitted when they arrived here. One car even had a cartridge still in it when it arrived and the customer didn't know how to remove it and that was my first introduction to them... and my last. During my apprenticeship, I used to buy an English magazine... "Practical Wireless" and occasionally I would also get a demonstration record similar to your "Pocket Record" with the magazine but it was 7" square and played at 45 RPM. The beginning of the "Moog era" arrived with a demo disc with a few sample tracks and being an electronic tech in the making, I was hooked. I even survived the "Discatron" era without buying one for myself although I repaired several. A portable "45" player that could be carried around and was a cross between a toaster and a jukebox. The records went in vertically and it used a slide instead of a tone arm. It could only play one side of a record at a time... just like a jukebox. High fidelity, it was not. Beaches were their worst enemy... the sand killed them.
@TheGamingEffect100
6 жыл бұрын
All along the watchtower- The Jimi Hendrix Experience, P.S. Nice haircut. Keep spinning that vinyl ✌🏻
@craigbrowning9448
5 жыл бұрын
A Vintage Record Enthusiast told me you can Use an Out of Phase Stereo Cartridge to play Vertical Cut (Hill & Dale) Records, at least Vertical Cut Broadcast Transcription Discs (Light Weight Tone Arms are less hazardous to Edison Diamond Discs).
@craigbrowning9448
6 жыл бұрын
16 RPM mostly was used for Spoken Word. Vertical cut records (Edison Diamond Discs) can be played on Stereo Styluses connected out of Phase. Some Broadcast Transcriptions used Vertical Grooves also.
@tomcunniffe7435
5 жыл бұрын
16 2/3 rpm 12" records were audio books recorded for the blind.
@Iconoclasher
6 жыл бұрын
Great video, but I wouldn't exactly call the 16", 33rpm radio transcriptions a failed format. They were in production for at least 40 years. I don't know when they stopped making them. I know they date back to the late 1920s. (I have a 16" shellac transcription with a Victor Talking Machine label on it, that makes it 1929 or earlier) Something made for 4 decades isn't exactly a failure. A format that's ultimately replaced by technology advancement doesn't make a failure. If that were the case, the CD should be included for the same reason. Cassettes and 8-tracks came out around the same time. Early cassettes sounded horrible compared to the 8-track. Technology advancement in the mid 70s made the cassette almost comparable to the best R2R recorders so the cassette replaced the 8-track. 8-track was the format of choice for around 10 years. Not a true failure. The Edison diamond disk is the same thing we had with the VHS vs Beta Max. Edison players had a much better tone and frequency response than the lateral Victor machines but Edison wouldn't release the rights to anyone else to produce. Another reason, nothing got recorded by Edison's company unless it had his seal of approval. Music changed dramatically in the 1920s but ol' Tom insisted on his 19th century tunes that were extremely dated even then. Edison's records and cylinders were in production for 30 years. A failure is an authentic rejection by the public.
@georgeprice7922
6 жыл бұрын
They stopped manufacturing the 16 RPM records sometime in the 60's.
@leemendham4788
6 жыл бұрын
Many BBC shows pre-1955 only exist in the form of 16" transcriptions. Toward the end of that period they began duplicate issues on 10" LPs, then discontinued 16" discs and later switched to 12".
@vividwatch47
5 жыл бұрын
Also before audio tape, they used a similar disc to record music and sound effects for feature films.
@ChristopherUSSmith
5 жыл бұрын
@@georgeprice7922 Except for Talking Books.
@ChristopherUSSmith
5 жыл бұрын
A variation of the 8-track was used by radio stations. It was a short one or two track "cart" used for songs, ads or station tags.
@Littlebill85
5 жыл бұрын
Quadraphonic Sound. In the 70's I had an Actual Quad synthesizer that work quite well by creating 2 additional channels with a slight difference. This was not a reverb system which I also had it my 1 channel A.M. car. It worked with an added rear speaker and was eletro-mechanical with 2 long springs. .
@adrianvanheems8041
Жыл бұрын
You can get a quadrophonic effect on the cheap by using a Hafler circuit. You take the positive wire from left and right speakers and feed it in series through another pair of speakers, with a volume potentiometer in between to regulate the sound level of this pair of speakers. The whole set-up works from the existing two amplifiers and the only extra expense is a pair of speakers and a potentiometer. This extra pair of speakers gathers the out of phase signal to give the resonant effect similar to what you would get from the back of a concert hall when listening to musicians playing on stage.
@MrC-w7j
6 жыл бұрын
Gosh ! ... the Edison Diamond disc is thick like a Flintstones record ! lol
@xaenon
6 жыл бұрын
I got one in a lot of used records not long ago. They're pretty heavy for their size, too.
@DaddisHouse
5 жыл бұрын
in the late 90s early 2000 I had an Edison Floor model. Loved it. I had it for about a year before I found it had about 7 disc hidden in it. I listen to that thing all the time. Loved it.
@victorthorn1591
5 жыл бұрын
Odd note: My grandmother owned many very early Edison Diamond records. Some of these were single-sided, a format you didn't mention. As I understand from my mother (who was born in 1914), the early ones were single sided then went to double-sided. Unfortunately, she passed away in 2002, at the age of 88. And yes, I, unfortunately, ruined a lot of these. On the other hand, I was the only high school student (fall of 1966 to spring of 1970) who was familiar with people like Sir Harry Lauder and Gracie Fields. Sadly, I had to leave an extensive vinyl collection behind when I moved to Portland, Or., in 1999. As far as a request for song for the day, I dare you to play a vinyl recording of Gracie Fields singing "He's Dead but He Won't Lay Down." Good luck with it! Failing vinyl, I know it can be had in other formats. But if you must stick with vinyl, then anything by Spike Jones and the City Slickers!
@casparpolitman
6 жыл бұрын
Some facts are not precise, Pathe were also produced with normal grooves even in the late 40s early 50s, 20 inch pathe are ultra rare, most pathe were small and normal, Edison diamond included jazz, Edison Just didnt like It but for marketing he introduced jazz in the early 20s,
@akanecortich8197
5 жыл бұрын
I recall buying EPs .. they were cheaper than the LPs and had the latest hit of the day.
@deltadesign5697
5 жыл бұрын
Not to mention, the same RIAA & the same 45rpm..
@falcon664
5 жыл бұрын
I have a 16" transcription disk- they were also used for commercials. Mine is for Nash Motors- each track uses the same theme music and basic pitch, but varies based on whether they were promoting a specific model, or feature, and/or length of the air time purchased for the commercial.
@ronevry2664
6 жыл бұрын
One last hurrah for 16 rpm records was the "Environments" series of LPs, which had recordings of ocean waves, forest sounds, etc. They were supposed to be played at 33, but on the liner notes, mentioned that they worked great (and longer) at 16. I've tried it and it works (of course, my four speed turntable is long gone. You mentioned Flexi-Disks, which had a long useful lifespan, but I haven't seen any new ones in ages. I do have a set of Beatles Flexis that Musicland Record Stores gave out with purchases back in the early eighties, and a nifty 4-cut Flexi that was included in a book on Janis Joplin.
@cdabcdefg12345
6 жыл бұрын
You should pick songs that not many people know so that people would be discovering new music. Everyone knows Africa by Toto, and giving it song of the day isn’t going to do anything, it’s just playing it completely safe.
@josh9033239
6 жыл бұрын
Im playing despacito on the worlds smallest alexa 4 u bb
@josh9033239
6 жыл бұрын
Mike Hegarty wow it really took you two weeks to think of that? Oof have a blessed evening
@heronimousbrapson863
6 жыл бұрын
Africa by Toto? Never heard of it.
@SPAZZOID100
6 жыл бұрын
Bruce Adie ???????
@BlackieNuff
6 жыл бұрын
Playing stuff people already know gives them something to compare. If you hear something new you've never heard before, how do you really KNOW if it sounds good on these new formats and systems or not? Using familiar favorites provides a "benchmark" of sorts, peopel know how it "should" sound... if you wanna pitch/discover new music, tune into a radio station.
@Stu-SB
5 жыл бұрын
Album covers behind the guy : I spot Black Sabbath 1st album and Dummy by Portishead, Sign o The Times Prince
@billdobiesz573
6 жыл бұрын
I have a number of these! I have Three Edison Diamond Discs (and about 150 cylinders, BTW). They are 80 rpm, and they can be played on a modern stereo, but you have to rewire the cartridge. As you said, do not attempt to play then on a convention Victrola / Gramophone, the record will be destroyed! The Seeburg 1000 records (I have several) were indeed 16-2/3 rpm, and they were used mostly as background music - but despite the low speed the audio is surprisingly good. They are 8" diameter and have a 2" center hole. I have a 16" transcription record from WFIN (year unknown) and it does not have locked grooves, just a single groove, each side. They cannot be played on a regular phonograph simply because of the diameter (I have a Newcomb TR-1625M which plays it fine). I do have one you didn't mention...I have a copy of a 1972 edition of Newsweek magazine on a record for the blind. It is one of those thin floppy ones - but it is 8 rpm and that one I have no way to play...
@skelejp9982
6 жыл бұрын
I had a Philips 832 HiFi Set back in the Days,made for Quadraphonic . It was Touch Control,very ahead of it's Time. But the Boxes Most Impressed me, MFB :Motional Feedback ,Amplifier build in,Serial or Parallel Setup. Greetings !
@JayTemple
5 жыл бұрын
I've never owned any of those formats, but I did own a phonograph with the 16 setting.
@eddiemaiden2012
5 жыл бұрын
very well done video very professional
@barnard-baca
5 жыл бұрын
I had a "pocket disc" as a kid. Also many of those "flexidiscs" that came in magazine adverts and such. When I worked in radio broadcasting as teen in Seattle (KUOW FM--npr), I had to learn to use those big old radio broadcast discs as well as the "cart" (cartridge) machines where we kept station i.d. and other stuff. Editing magnetic tape was important. CDs then came in, at first with their shrill, harsh sound.
@ddargel
5 жыл бұрын
My Dad was a BSEE and a huge audiophile. I remember at 10 years old, and his home built decoder, sitting in the middle of 4 identical speakers and listening to a quadrecord playback. OMG....four seperate channels of sound. Wow!!! If I remember right...it was a standard turntable. Thanks for the memory flashback!
@Rebel9668
4 жыл бұрын
A lot of the 16rpm records were sold to the blind as magazines and periodicals, etc. would make audible articles for them. Pathe records also took their own special needle in the same way that Edison diamond discs did. I have a Brunswick phonograph player from 1917 that will play all three formats as the head can rotate to the position where each type of needle would go for the diamond discs, pathe and standard 78's. Then even with standard 78's there were three different needles to choose from depending on whether you wanted a softer, louder or medium tone. The Brunswick player also has a volume control rod that went to a "sock" that actually slid in and out of the speaker horn to muffle the sound. That's where the phrase of "Put a sock in it" came from. It also has a device on it to automatically stop the turntable spinning at the end of a record.
@TryptychUK
5 жыл бұрын
Quadraphonic: For people with four ears. I once had a QS system but there weren't a lot of albums in the format. I still have "Tubular Bells" somewhere though. I also have a few 16RPM 7" but they were mainly used for spoken word and plays etc.
@dannymadison6335
6 жыл бұрын
I have a record player that has 16, 33, 45, and 78 speeds. The slower the speed, the worse the sound generally.
@scharkalvin
5 жыл бұрын
Actually that's not true. Going from 78 to 45, and then 33 you DECREASE the surface noise. Just as with tape, reducing the cutting speed also tends to reduce S/N ratio and frequency response because the output signal is reduced as less energy is available from the vibrating stylus. However, 78 rpm records had to generate ALL of the signal that drove the "speaker", THERE WAS NO AMPLIFIER, only a MEGAPHONE! Once pizeo electric and magnetic pickup cartridges and vacuum tube amplifiers were invented this was no longer a problem, and the effective S/N ratio at 45 or even 33 rpm was better than at 78. Records pressed onto vinyl had lower surface noise than earlier ones pressed into shellac or wax, higher signal output and better S/N ratio despite the lower speed. Improved cutting heads and playback cartridges had better frequency response too. The cartridge and cutting head tech that made CD-4 records possible would allow 16.66 rpm and even 8.33 rpm records to sound as good as today's 33's. Back in the late 70's and early 80's some audiophile recordings were cut onto 45rpm LP sized discs to get better channel separation and S/N playback. Some of these were also digitally mastered.
@tommytruth7595
5 жыл бұрын
And years ago, it was very amusing to play the record at the wrong speed----either too fast or too slow.
@paulrybak4019
5 жыл бұрын
I listen mainly to Jazz Saxophonist. Unbelievable to hear an LP at 16rpm to seel all the notes that are being played in a short interval.@@tommytruth7595
@SlackerSlayer
5 жыл бұрын
@@tommytruth7595 Yeah, play Black Sabbath at 78 and see god, right? That was the joke back then.
@kabouktli
5 жыл бұрын
Mine has the same four but, also, everything in between. You can tune a record to the key you want!
@lawrencecongdon8882
5 жыл бұрын
Fun video! What about, circa 1970, records printed on the back of cereal boxes? (Okay, not a serious format). These were 45's you cut out of the box. I think they were a plastic layer with the grooves secured to the cardboard.
@davidsears9307
5 жыл бұрын
I have a few 78's I inherited from my Aunt. I'm a musician and recorded a couple of quadraphonic records in the 70s working with an artist whose nick name amongst some was the "Quadfather". His name was Hugo Montenegro.
@factenter6787
5 жыл бұрын
Although 8-track tapes were bulky, unrewindable, often awkwardly split songs between programs, and unravelled inside the cartridge when the leader broke, their sound quality was amazing. I think they played at double the speed of a compact cassette.
@malp1
Жыл бұрын
Interesting, I don't think I've ever before heard anyone say that they felt the sound quality of 8-tracks was superior.
@zappedguy
5 жыл бұрын
I have a collection of quadraphonic records and the necessary decoders. The reason that they didn't become popular is because the audio stores didn't want to push the technology and would tell the customers that it wasn't worth the extra cost. My decoders can take a 2 channel recording and derive the original acoustics of the concert hall and make a believably accurate reproduction of the hall. The difference in sound can best be described as listening to a concert through a wide window form the outside, vs being in the middle of the hall.
@richardmcleod5967
6 жыл бұрын
The 16 2/3 records were heavily used in Libraries and also used by individual with visual deficits to aid them primarily in listening to Poetry and various forms of Literature. It was one of the reasons they were mailed at lower shipping rates through the United States Postal System which is still the case only today referred to as Media or Book Rate.
@jrgboy
5 жыл бұрын
Here in the UK the BBC used to tape radio shows, edit them then transfer them to course groove records running at 16rpm, this was because of the cost of magnetic tape in the early 1950's..
@briangallagher2236
5 жыл бұрын
I only grew up with LPs and 45s, but my dad's stereo had 16 and 78 speeds as well. Playing records at different speeds was fun, until you wore out the needle. At least my dad's old Decca hifi had a jar of spare needles.
@3catsn1dog
5 жыл бұрын
We had old 78s around the house when I was growing up. They broke very easily and were good for target practice.
@WCM1945
5 жыл бұрын
the 16-2/3 speed was a popular format for speech transcriptions. The frequency range was more that adequate for speech, and many lecture and famous political speeches were released this way, but were mostly used by libraries and news agencies.
@QuincyDisneyVegan
5 жыл бұрын
Correction: Quad records were made well into the 80's. A guy I met several years ago re-introduced me to Thomas Dolby's "She Blinded Me With Science" in quad format on his surround sound system. It was amazing and I literally felt like I heard the song for the first time that day eventhough I've heard it all my life. What I especially loved about the format was hearing the nuisances in sounds and b instrumentation that you wouldn't hear on a standard 2.0 system.
@freeman10000
4 жыл бұрын
I have a quad version (SQ) of Dark side of the Moon. It was purchased in 1984.
@larryboysen5911
5 жыл бұрын
I have all these formats and the vintage machines to play them on. The Edison Diamond discs have quite good fidelity for the time, as do the Victor Orthophonic 78's. Electrically recorded from 1925 on. When these records are played on the Victor Orthophonic machine of the period...the fidelity is amazing.
@larsbliss2728
5 жыл бұрын
I have one Edison Disc, but nothing to play it on. I also have 3 Lear cartridges I can't use either. I should sell em. My collection is around 8-Track, 78s, reel to reel, and 33 1/3. I setup one of my Dual record changers to play 78s on and it all works out pretty well.
@ruisantos4520
5 жыл бұрын
There is one imprecision thing in your infm. The reason why the disc manufacturers started beeing done "flat" instead of cilinders, IN MY OPINION, is the Heritage … At the time there were TWO standards of playing music before Edison .. I do not know the name for the devices in english but basically they play music in "pliinn´s" + a Spring with a "metalic cilindre" or "a plate" … I found the plate name as Regina´s plates but was not able to find the comercial name for the cilinder… Edison decided to go for the "cilinder shape" while the other manufacturers decided on the "flat/Regina type" instead. Edison later made a "flat record player as well" but it was to late for his company as the others estabelished themselves allready.
@lcarliner
5 жыл бұрын
What about the 45 RPM RCA format! Also another major reason for quadraphonic family failure was back in 1973, when I was living in Wichita, Kansas, I could not fine a place that had a creditable demo available to listen to. The only demo I could find was at a leased department at a mini-hypermarket. Was was being demoed was an eight-track taped demo of the the “Qaudio” product with the four littles lined up on a bookshelf playing a cheery png pong polka! The excuse that the hapless sales clerk had for that ridiculous setup was space limitations!
@TopshelfTom
6 жыл бұрын
16 rpm records were largely used for audio books for the blind. They had their time and place, and did not sound really bad, consider that the equipment used to play them on back in the old days made everything sound bad. Check out the KZitem video of a guy playing Herb Alpert's A Taste Of Honey from a 16 rpm record made in a foreign country, it sounds phenomenal for the speed. Pathé discs existed in multiple sizes, I have many 10" discs from that company. They only experimented with the large size for a short while before realizing that they were getting more returned broken in pieces than not. Transcription discs were highly important to record on at radio stations that needed to play prerecorded material prior to upgrading to reel to reel tape, or later tape formats. You couldn't expect DJ's to always be live repeating commercials or news and weather multiple times a day... they were used for decades and were not always 16" discs, I own several 10" and 12" transcriptions. Some play at 33 rpm, others at 78rpm. Pocket discs were around 1967-69. Philco made them in 1967 and 1968, Americom made them in 1968 and 1969. Some reasons they failed were that they were mostly, but not always, sold out of vending machines, rather than stores. Those vending machines were not often kept in stock. They were comprised usually of 2 previous hits by an artist, not current releases, and while they had their own special record player, if you tried to play them with your regular record player that was an automatic changer, the small size caused the mechanics to stop the record before it was over.
@amdenis
5 жыл бұрын
We also have a few other weird formats here at the studio for posterity sake: a “Center Start” record (just as it sounds, from around 1900), a metallic music box disk from the late 1800’s, player piano rolls, and (although still analog, but not really “records”), we have some laserdisc’s, a roughly 2.5” spiral tape cartridge format called a Sanyo Micro Pack 35 and a 4-Track “Stereo-Pak recording. However, even these are just the tip of the iceberg, as there were over 100 other, often short-lived, formats along the way- not counting digital, which has added 100’s more!
@icollectstuff-vinylcommuni7294
4 жыл бұрын
As an collector in sweden we had some strange vinyl pormats in the 50s for radio station.
@kevinkirk4285
5 жыл бұрын
My Dad was on on-air disc jockey when I was a kid. He spun 45 RPM singles but his ad spots were on 4 track tape loops which he cut, edited and spliced. Also, my first early exposure to music was The Beatles, Help!, which my parents had in our 4 track deck in a 1956 Plymouth...
@minoanlight4545
5 жыл бұрын
Ahhh, Edison, the famous thief.
@216trixie
5 жыл бұрын
derp
@chewee2k
5 жыл бұрын
When I was a kid in the '50s, my friends and I went to a "crafts fair" where we given a large record. We were shown how to strip the "vinyl?" off the record, leaving us with a disc of some type of metal (Aluminum?). We put a cabinet door knob through the hole in the disc and turned up the edge of the record in a scalloped fashion and this made an hors d'oeuvres tray the my mother really liked. I know the records were donated by a radio station. Could these have been transcription discs?
@hebneh
4 жыл бұрын
Yes.
@sidecarcn
4 жыл бұрын
Interesting video, but transcription discs didn't die out in the late 50s. A number of international broadcasters continued using them well into the 80s. At Radio Netherlands the last 16" transcription disc we sent out as a 20 copy run (In the 50s it was 500), was in 1986. We had different formats of distribution until 1998. 16"transcription (very small numbers), 12", 10", tape, cassette and CD. Also audio on BETAMAX tapes. Also the Pathe discs for the most part were used for commercial venues. As for the 16rpm records. A number of them were released in South Africa and a few other markets. It was also used into the 80s by the Seeburg 1000 music system and other public music systems. As for the sound. If they were engineered correctly they sound fantastic. I have a few Seeburg ones which sounds great for the purpose they were used for and Miles Davis, Searchers, Beatles from EMI South Africa that also sound very good.
@saccharinesilk
6 жыл бұрын
me, only a few seconds into the video: "well is it failed or died? there's a difference, there, for example, 78's were popular for years and could never be considered a failure, but they did die, as all technology does eventually, when newer better replacements were found"
@MrHans818
6 жыл бұрын
I inherited my father's AM /turntable from the time when all it played was the 78's. The stylus was fairly thick. Naturally it doesn't play anymore but it did when i was a kid. All my father's records are gone since most of them were opera, but I ran across one from my wife's late mother's "Mr Sandman" from the fifties which I though what an awesome 78 to have since it got popular all over by the movie Halloween with Jamie Lee Curtis. But you are right. Technology kill off the 78's along with all the other records.
@mathieuserradell3367
6 жыл бұрын
I agree with you. Not failed, but died, or faded away. And another thing: why do you have to speak so slowly?
@drewzero1
3 жыл бұрын
I always wondered why my turntable had a 16 setting. I’ve only ever used it to make Bach concerti last forever.
@jimmooneyhan5902
5 жыл бұрын
When we were kids, we'd play a 45rpm at 78rpm and call it "ducks". I later did this with a 33 1/3rpm and heard notes two octaves above the high "E" on the treble clef. I also played "Popcorn" by "Hot Butter" on 33rpm instead of 45rpm; it sounded like a coffee perculator.
@bizzleungen
6 жыл бұрын
Lucy in the sky with diamonds - the Beatles
@theworldwidehistoryofhisto2868
6 жыл бұрын
Great idea!
@elliettemaloney7659
6 жыл бұрын
Kevin Berntsen yes
@mikemadden2729
6 жыл бұрын
And they claimed it wasn't about LSD, like Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah claimed Lake Shore Drive wasn't about LSD. LOL!
@glennso47
5 жыл бұрын
Judy in Disguise with Glasses
@Vector_Ze
5 жыл бұрын
Nice video on a great subject. I only have personal memories of the last two. Never owned a quad record, because as you said it required quad equipment which at that time in my life I wasn't financially able to buy. I actually did buy a couple of the pocket records. As I recall the ones I bought were called "Hip Pocket" records. I bought them at the local Sears store. And, although I don't remember what the music was, I had a pretty eclectic taste (still do) and it could've been anything from the Monkees to Hendrix. I already had my first cassette deck by then and only bought them as a curiosity. BTW, my first cassette deck was an innovative 6-tape changer made by Apex. Lord knows how I raised the money to buy it, I was in my mid-teens then and didn't come from a well-to-do family. I still have family-gathering recordings I made a half-century ago, and have digitized some of them. Sorry for the rambling. Oh, be careful starting too many sentences with, "Now, ".
@ur2c8
5 жыл бұрын
When I was a kid, we used to have a collection of old 78s in the cupboard, which we would occasionally dig out and play. Over time they gradually got dropped and broken. Not sure what happened to what remained. Went the way of all things from your childhood I suppose: lost and forgotten.
@kevinpatrickmacnutt
Жыл бұрын
I had a Fisher receiver that decoded all the quad formats. It worked pretty well as long as you were using a shibata tipped stylus. Quad was kind of a gimmick as most albums of the era were not mixed with quad in mind. Often labels would use alternate mixes, add in alternate guitar lines left off the final track (usually left off for a reason). If the format had more artist participation rather than the label calling the shots, quad would have been more organic and successful.
@valvenator
5 жыл бұрын
Those 16 2/3 record players were great for transcribing music from 33 1/3 LP's since they would play an octave lower so you didn't have to re-tune your guitar. BTW I own a copy of the Police Regatta de Blanc LP on a double 10" 33 1/3 rpm disc set. I think it was a kind of novelty thing so of course I had to have it.
@draugami
5 жыл бұрын
Wow! What a great video. The comments below were very informative.
@iused2BAfireman
5 жыл бұрын
I have a vintage Marantz quad set-up with both SQ & CD-4 decoders. I regularly look for sealed Quad records. In many cases the quad mixes were superior to the stereo mixes as the engineers took the time to make the transition. Most outstanding sounding quad records I have are Dark Side of the Moon, Al Kooper Super Sessions and a Blood Sweat and Tears greatest hits. Sound immersion therapy I call it. A major disappointment was Oldfield's Tublular Bells and a symphony recording which I cannot recall the name as I type.
@harrylangdon491
5 жыл бұрын
As a kid I desperately wanted to make a record in a penny arcade recording/vending machine, but the price -- 35 cents -- was a killer. (In 2019 money that's over $3.50!) Somehow around 1950 I once got the money (from Dad) and recorded about 40 or 50 seconds on a little plastic disc. I recall instructions suggesting put a little piece of cardboard on the spindle below the record to get traction. I recall most of what I recorded and it was as lousy as you'd expect of a nine-year old, and breathless under the pressure of the short timer--it was a take-off on War of the Worlds (Orson Welles' famous broadcast).
@dbingamon
5 жыл бұрын
Another problem with pocket discs is on some automatic record players, when the arm goes in too far it wants to retract and shut off.
@Satters
5 жыл бұрын
We had a quadraphonic setup in the music room at school (70s - 80s) it sounded really strange if you sat backwards
@cluny
5 жыл бұрын
1979 visiting Palo Alto, the classical station was hopping on a format it would play, Direct to Disc recordings. With no magnetic tape master conveyance. Before tape, everything was live, direct to disc. Engineering, seating, mic placement had to be pre planned. Little chance for doctoring or overdubbing, multi tracking. One way to cheat was something called Digital. Organist Virgil Fox who died in 1980 recorded in DDD for Crystal Clear records. At the Crystal Cathedral. Later reissued on CD once that format was introduced.
@riceburnerbiker1483
5 жыл бұрын
I was 7 at the CYO in when I witnessed a kick box in the pool room... The Beatles were playing, then The Rolling Stones. I was a rocking Roll Hound from that moment in1968.
@johngrace7995
5 жыл бұрын
Although I do not have any of the transcription discs, I do have a CD box by Hank Snow entitled The Thesaurus Transcriptions. These were recordings that Mr. Snow had made for radio airplay only, and were put on to 16" discs. But of special interest to the Hank Snow fan is that these numbers were released solely on to transcription discs. And because Germany has released his entire catalogue, these recordings have become available.
@Johnthemusicguy
5 жыл бұрын
Remember Dynaflex? Very thin lps made by RCA in the 70s. Easily broken, and they warped if you looked at them cross-eyed, or got them anywhere near sunlight for more than 2 seconds. Also 16 rpm records were also used for Talking Books for the blind from 1962 - 1973. Those records were 10 inches and played for around 45 minutes per side.
@jussikuusela7345
5 жыл бұрын
Not all turntables even allow the tonearm to pivot far enough in to play the pocket disc.
@feanor411
5 жыл бұрын
great video! i have been into vinyl since around 1984, my format of choice being 12'' singles. it's fascinating to see all of these archaic formats! it totally doesn't hurt that you are very easy on the eyes, will be watching more of your videos in the future.
@randycharlesjohnson6248
Жыл бұрын
I once had a 6 inch 78RPM record. It was the only one I've ever seen. You should talk about these 6 inch records in one of your videos.
@anotherdave5107
5 жыл бұрын
what size and speed were the little records in kids toys? I took apart one of my sisters talking dolls as a kid that you pulled the cord on and it had a little record in it.
@adrat8339
5 жыл бұрын
There were variant transcription disks that had one long track to be used as intermission music in movie theatres, my grandfather ran the projectors in a theatre from the 1920s thru the 1950s and we had a collection of them at home when I was a kid.
@ArnoldsDesign
5 жыл бұрын
I didn't know there were so many different types of records. Very interesting. We have an original Edison drum phonograph and a wooden box full of drums. It still works.
@EzeePosseTV
5 жыл бұрын
I used to have a strange tape player many years ago where the tape was very much like a record. The tape had grooves on it and was read by a stylus like a record player. It was a strange contraption. Gotta love unusual audio media formats.
@samscozzari9682
5 жыл бұрын
Many 'children' or 'pre-teens' had portable manual turntables in the 1968-69 era, and the pocket record was marketed to them as free items in cereal boxes, vending machined, and other novelty ways to convey them. So although the format failed, that was the real market for them, not really the hi-fi afficianado or the person with an auto-changer. It was thought that kids would put them in their pocket and play them when they got together at school, parites, etc.
@hebneh
4 жыл бұрын
The Edison company refused to license its technology to other companies, which eventually destroyed them. 1) To get around the Edison patent of hill & dale grooves, other companies shifted to lateral grooves. 2) To out-compete Edison releasing recordings only on cylinders, Columbia and Victor shifted to discs, which after a few years started carrying a song on each side. This meant you got TWO pieces of music per purchase instead of just one, on a cylinder. Obviously a very strong competitive advantage. 3) Edison eventually started making discs but because they couldn't be played on any other company's player, they were made extra-thick (as seen here) to differentiate them very clearly. But this was a problem because every other disc made by every other company could be played on any brand of record player, while the Edison Diamond Discs could only be played on an Edison machine. So why bother? By 1929, when Edison dropped recordings altogether, it was obvious they had put themselves on a dead end. Exactly the same situation with Sony only making Betamax home videocassettes vs. JVC inventing the competing VHS format and allowing anyone else to license it. Betamax was of better quality but it was out-competed, partly because VHS could record up to 4 hours vs. each Betamax cassette only holding 1 hour.
@davidloder7725
5 жыл бұрын
Yes, somewhere, somehow I acquired ONE (only one) of what you've just informed me is a "POCKET" record. Lately sorting many vinyl and other recordings, there was Lesley Gore on the little cover. None of my equipment will play it, as I've learned also. So just because they were only made the one year you've indicated, I'm keeping it for a conversation piece (curiosity) if and when anyone actually cares to see one. Thanks for educating people like us, who began with victrolas, portable 45rpm players and still have tons of 33-1/3s !!
@mikeb6450
5 жыл бұрын
Now that we have surround, its very weird that few quad recordings have been reissued in surround format. Pentatone has done a few.
@BCSchmerker
5 жыл бұрын
+VinylEyezz *The 20" Pathé discs for 78 RPM would have been the best format* for Warner Brothers Incorporated (ASCAP) to use for movie sound on disc due to length of soundtrack matching the public portion of the 35mm filmreels of the day; a feature film used multiple reels of film and a matching number of sound discs.
@lewisedwards3115
4 жыл бұрын
My man was like LETS HAVE A PROPER SCRAN OUT OF THIS VINYL
@alanabdulov1801
7 ай бұрын
cool song - orbital, snivilisation (in particular, the track "attached")
@ReedHansen84
6 жыл бұрын
My father and I are active collectors of Quad SQ records, including selections from Edgar Winter and Santana
@gabithemagyar
5 жыл бұрын
I used to like getting postcard records :-) Some had songs, others you could have made with your voice with a personal message recorded on it. Looked like a picture postcard but was playable on a record player at 45 rpm.
@timstamps5281
2 жыл бұрын
It depends on what you mean when you say "failed format". If they're failed formats just because they're no longer being made today, then that would make virtually everything a failed format. But the ones mentioned here *did* catch on to one degree or another for a limited time (with hip-pocket records being the shortest-lived). On the other hand, there are much lesser-known formats that did not catch on, which would qualify more as "failed" - such as DBX-encoded records, CX-encoded records, 5" CDV laserdisc video singles (with analog video), and hundreds of other prototype systems.
@JiveDadson
6 жыл бұрын
When I was a DJ in the late 60's early 70's, radio stations still had turntables large enough to play transcription disks, and there were old transcription records in the back rooms. Some of the music on them was so hoaky it was funny. We used to cannibalise them to make cuing discs by gluing felt to one side.
@polygamous1
5 жыл бұрын
This is my first time watching your video n am Subscribing as i no need to see any more to realize i will enjoy your videos, as am an old head growing up with Vinyl I still have lots of my music on vinyl and i have noticed something that many others do Not agree with me, My Best source of Music I have Is a 1959 MONO LP, its in mint condition because i forgotten it in my late sis loft so its never been played on a heavy weight BSR arm (they where all super heavy them days) or a ceramic cartridge even its in MONO the sound quality is way way better than any CD or a stereo record with the same song/artist, its Not my hearing even now its Nothing as sharp as it once was is this because maybe the micro groves on LPs is just too small to have Hi quality sound on both channels? even now with my old hearing Elvis Is in my room when i play that record more presence more dynamism its just better than anything i have, i just believe its cause its in MONO you think am right or wrong? my equipment are pretty good quality
@frankolen4137
5 ай бұрын
I have two quad frrecord one is by the palm court ork and the other by Beverly sills doing Victor hernbert
@alankanen1052
5 жыл бұрын
The Edison Diamond Discs were made without electrical microphones which came into existence in 1925. Edison continued to record his records acoustically, that is, still using recording horns in the recording process. Their sound quality could be comparable to electrically-recorded records but the enforced five-minute playing time sometimes sonically strained some recording artists who had been used to the smaller time allowance on other records.The reason no jazz tunes were recorded was Edison himself. He just didn't like "jazzers." Though he was profoundly deaf, he took it upon himself to hear each record made before it was sold to the public. A story goes around, possibly true, that having listened to a test recording made by the Russian composer and pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff, Edison said to him, "You are a pounder, sir!" Nonetheless, a number of Diamond Discs by Rachmaninoff were made and sold.
@gerrydrummond3287
Жыл бұрын
Did you miss the format that ran from the inside to the outside of the disk? These were used by among others, the BBC for broadcast purposes. I have a sound effect disk in this format
@pauldavies8638
5 жыл бұрын
You used to be able to find recording booths were you could record your own record, sometimes in railway stations, I think they were responsible for the 16rpm records.
@chas60
5 жыл бұрын
I do have a collection of records that spin at 16 RPM. They were given to me by my mother. Some came from an old jukebox we once owned. Sadly, I have nothing to play them on.
@yipstube
5 жыл бұрын
The capability for discrete 4-channel sound was designed into the audio CD spec. As far as I know it was never used because record companies could never forget the near total consumer rejection of quadraphonic LPs.
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