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How to pick a stylus to play a 78-rpm record
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this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2023
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Not many vinyl heads still around.
Playing 78’s is a niche within a niche.
Vinyl has, AFAIK, been gaining a lot in popularity over the last 20 years. The last few years pressing plants have had trouble keeping up with demand — in part due to supply chain issues, but also because everyone and their grandma wants vinyl pressed.
It's a great service. I found several of his expertly-created 78 tunes on there that I hadn't heard in decades. (Some scarce stuff is almost never NOT available on 33 or 45rpm)
Another reason: Some people get deeper into multiple pieces of music because they like to compare performances of them. Fidelity doesn't matter a whole lot. You want to compare how some bands or singers performed a (non-hit) song recorded in the 1930s or 1950s. You listen around the fidelity. People in the 1950s made million-selling hits everyone heard on AM radio or 45s. Fidelity is over-rated.