20-04-2021, 03:34 PM
(14-04-2021, 11:14 AM)Murphyv310 Wrote: Hi.
I still enjoy 78s in the raw with the usual background noise. Even unplayed 78s have still some inherent noise but I find that the Decca ffrr 78s take a lot of beating. One thing I'd like to fit to my AT6 is a Shure M78 cartridge, the Sonotone 9TA that's in it now is pretty good but I believe the Shure is excellent.
I recall in the early days of LP (back in the era of Hi Fi Fo Fum), there were many 'LP versus 78' discussions. Fans of 78s would tell me to just become accustomed to the scratch and 'listen through it'. That indeed proved to be possible, and I remember the early days in the 1980s when we initiated what became 'Cedar' noise reduction in collaboration with Cambridge University Engineering Dept. We had a digital version of that process (running very much in non-real time on BBC Micros!), with matched filters 'becoming accustomed to the scratch' and reducing its prominence whilst transmitting the musical content, hence improving the signal/noise ratio.
Martin
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