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Re: Why do early Columbia Disc records sound bad?
Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2017 4:05 am
by WDC
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.
Re: Why do early Columbia Disc records sound bad?
Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 12:21 pm
by Victrolacollector
I am off work today, so I have hopped on, is it me but this thread has appeared to taken a different direction?
Re: Why do early Columbia Disc records sound bad?
Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2017 2:51 pm
by WDC
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.