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Re: [ARSCLIST] Mostly for laughs
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From: "Mike Richter" <mrichter@xxxxxxx>
> Steven C. Barr(x) wrote:
> > During the phonograph "boom years" (mid-teens) there waa a phonograph
> > make, Vitaphone, which actually had its needle on the end of a long
> > piece of wood...whose other end connected to the diaphraghm. Supposedly,
> > the sound "mellowed" while traveling through the wood...?!
>
> It certainly would have mellowed. Lower frequencies would see resonances
> and higher ones would be damped where the wood actually dissipated energy.
>
And, of course, among those "damped" high frequencies was much of
the surface noise inherent in shellac records...so Vitaphones
probably sounded "better"...
Steven C. Barr