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Re: [ARSCLIST] RCA 1958 promo film(s)
George Brock-Nannestad wrote:
At EMI, lacquer was used for colonial recording from the late 1930s; I
suppose this logistic choice was sensible and outweighed the increased noise
that would be masked by the shellac mixture. And the end users were probably
not esteemed as being quality-conscious.
That, and the colonial buyers were likely as not listening on cheap
suitcase portables, which would not have the frequency range of a more
expensive floor model....although I would think that any surface noise
would actually be MORE noticeable on suitcases, since they didn't
reproduce the bass range all that well.
Michael Shoshani
Chicago