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Charles, many thanks for your extensive answer and explanations. Your work is astonishing... Now it's clear why the i78s sound so well...

Inigo wrote: Sat Dec 11, 2021 6:46 pm Charles, many thanks for your extensive answer and explanations. Your work is astonishing... Now it's clear why the i78s sound so well...

I'm simply blown away at some of the transfers- especially the 5" cylinders. They sound like NOS once processed.

I listened to some bing Crosby Brunswicks, and the sound is incredibly realistic! Nice work.
And the acoustical recordings sound also so natural... Equalisation provided to those acoustical recordings is very well done. Things sound very well and clear.
I'm carried away by this, and later thought of my own experience at home with acoustic 78s. When I play them with an original hmv tabletop with its internal horn and exhibition soundbox, they sound poor, when compared with the same records played on my hmv127 (internal EXPONENTIAL horn, much longer) with a Meltrope 3 soundbox. The metal diaphragm and the long exp horn definitely make acoustic 78s sound wonderful and much richer and clearer than with the original era machine. Something similar to when you listen to those good i78s transfers.
Not needed to say, but also the transfers done by our colleague Marc Hilldebrant in his podcasts are marvelous.... Specially the DD transfers! What an incredible sound!