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lb969:
Good Vinyl?
Cleaning up my grandmothers I found a few Elvis, and a old Edison platter, the ones that are like 1/2 inch thick.
Vinyl is OK, but i don't hold a candle to 5.1(or better) CD quality.
However the oldies (pre Rock) are better on Vinyl.
jeremy:
Not to be a dick, but there's no such thing as an "Edison platter." I think you're probably thinking of an old 78 rpm disc. Those were very thick, 10" in diameter, and generally contained foxtrots (heh). Edison's original machine (looks like this) played Edison cylinders, but those are really tough to find. Before his death, my grandfather (who lived to be 90, to give you an idea of the age of the technology) talked about giving me a collection of cylinders that had belonged to his parents during his childhood, but I never did see them. Hopefully they ended up somewhere safe, as they're notoriously fragile and were never really designed to last very long anyway.
Oh, and just to make this post at least a little bit on topic, one of my favorite records was given to me by my grandmother some years ago after she somehow found out that I collect records. It's a demonstration record that was given away by Traveller's Insurance Group to visitors of the 1964-1965 World's Fair. It's called "The Triumph of Man" and it's the funniest damned thing I've ever heard. Totally cold war propaganda couched in relentless optimism: "From there, the settlers and sodbusters pressed forwarrd, relentlessly pushing the borders of American expansion to new frontiers..." (no mention of those pesky indians, of course!) And the ending alluding to the "exciting new frontiers" of space exploration is really great, too. The back cover of the record sleeve has a really cheesy painting of an astronaut's face floating about in the vacuum of space. Hahaha. He looks like Wilfred Brimley, the infamous oatmeal/insurance spokesperson.
Johnny C:
Mayhap it's a nickname?
Anyhow, I didn't know Edison invented planned obsolesence, too.
lb969:
Edison Platter: Slang for a '78 manufactured by the Edison Co. Not common outside Ny/MA/PA/NJ where these things are easy to find (as they were made in NJ)
Most of the records I found were WWII era, to 1970.
El Opium:
I saw one of those Edison platters lying around in a junk mall here in IA. It was indeed wonderously heavy and thick. It was dated 1923.
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