Why do early Columbia Disc records sound bad?

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Re: Why do early Columbia Disc records sound bad?

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Starkton wrote:In 1911, Carl Lindström A.G., Berlin, bought the majority of Fonotipia. Perhaps you don't know that Fonotipia was in British possession since April 1906.
This reminds me a lot of that previously uncovered Edison patent and the resentfulness against your findings. A few hundred years earlier you would have been burnt at the stake for blasphemy or witchcraft. :roll:
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I am off work today, so I have hopped on, is it me but this thread has appeared to taken a different direction?
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Victrolacollector wrote:I am off work today, so I have hopped on, is it me but this thread has appeared to taken a different direction?
Your observation is precise, it has drifted a lot. A separate thread would have made sense if others were still willing to discuss it.

Btw. I personally quite happy with the sound quality of early Columbia discs.
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