edisonphonoworks wrote:I have an early black and silver label Columbia of Your A Grand Old Rag by Billy Murray,and you can barely hear the audio over the surface noise, seems the early black and silver label Columbias in my opinion are about as noisy as you can get.
I have found this to be the case with the early Columbia discs... the early black & silver label Columbias almost look like they were made from anthracite coal...