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That one actually sounds worse than the copy I have. Mine's a reissue from the 40s on red vinyl, but I'm pretty sure it's a straight repressing and not one of the redubs.

I tried searching Youtube for an example of the Stockhams, but I found nothing. I found plenty of the redubbed ones that were clearly labelled, but zilch for the stockhams. How odd I'm actually really curious to hear how these sound.

John wrote:That one actually sounds worse than the copy I have. Mine's a reissue from the 40s on red vinyl, but I'm pretty sure it's a straight repressing and not one of the redubs.

I tried searching Youtube for an example of the Stockhams, but I found nothing. I found plenty of the redubbed ones that were clearly labelled, but zilch for the stockhams. How odd I'm actually really curious to hear how these sound.

Just go get an RCA CD. Like the ones with the brown covers.

Some people still buy CD's right? I dunno.

I still buy CD's...

I Usually find that when working with making better sounding transfers that have a more lifelike sound. For 78s I use a Western Electric turn table with RCA mid 1930s magnetic pickup, and then when I record the acoustics to add bass play with the 80-200 cps range to add more lows, be careful. Horn resonance, is between 400-1200 cps, reducing this will give a less horn sound. On cylinders a boos around 200-250, and a reduction from 800-1200cps of from 1-4 db can make a difference.

When the Stockham stuff came out, I remember thinking "ooo, a computer was used! Must be fantastic!" because computers were still mysterious and rare and super-expensive... now, the Caruso stuff just sounds like all the life has been filtered out...

On a related subject, I've known only one person who was able to play Edison discs on modern eqipment and make them sound better than a good old Edison machine .... but sadly, he's dead.

If one is able to hear the Stockham stuff in a large reverberant room at a distance from the speakers, the effect is interesting. Up close, the effect isn't as good.