[Phono-L] Best sounding Phonograph

2006-12-24 Thread Bruce Mercer
Without a doubt, the Edison phonograph playing a paper label records. Why should they be excluded? They met the criteria of being an internal horn acoustic phonograph. Bruce

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2006-12-24 Thread pjfra...@alamedanet.net
gee, when i read this, i remembered a little thing i wrote about 15 years ago. googled around and guess what, it's still out there on the web! http://www.shellac.org/wams/wpete08.html bob waltrip was the guy who told me the phrase about the DD sound following you down the hall. my, time flies.

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2006-12-24 Thread Robert Wright
, April 11, 2006 4:43 PM Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Best sounding Phonograph gee, when i read this, i remembered a little thing i wrote about 15 years ago. googled around and guess what, it's still out there on the web! http://www.shellac.org/wams/wpete08.html bob waltrip was the guy who told me

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2006-12-24 Thread Dan Kjeldgaard
...@alamedanet.net To: Antique Phonograph List phono-l@oldcrank.org Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 5:43 PM Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Best sounding Phonograph gee, when i read this, i remembered a little thing i wrote about 15 years ago. googled around and guess what, it's still out there on the web! http

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2006-12-24 Thread pjfra...@alamedanet.net
comments interspersed below... Dan Kjeldgaard wrote: Bob also totally scr()wed me with Orthophonic and Edison rebuilds. Perhaps he'd lost his alleged touch by then, but both were the worst botch-jobs ever heard by my ears. Sad. i'd not heard of this. most folks were polarized either for or

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2006-12-24 Thread diamondisk...@aol.com
In a message dated 4/11/2006 6:18:15 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, esrobe...@hotmail.com writes: If you want slam, Credenza. If you want the performers in the room with you, Edisonic. When did J. Gordon Holt and Harry Pearson enter this discussion? (If I have to take the Audiophile

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2006-12-24 Thread Dan Kjeldgaard
by a person well known in our hobby, afterward. Not charitable, so I won't mention the name. :) - Original Message - From: pjfra...@alamedanet.net To: Antique Phonograph List phono-l@oldcrank.org Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 9:00 PM Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Best sounding Phonograph

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2006-12-24 Thread Robert Wright
I'd give just about anything to hear some low-key store-stock electrical DD's on a C-250. *sigh* r. - Original Message - From: diamondisk...@aol.com To: phono-l@oldcrank.org Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 9:59 PM Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Best sounding Phonograph I was so distracted

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2006-12-24 Thread Robert Wright
JGH and Pearson?? Why Randy, I'm honored by the comparison. ;-) And damn right those Von Schweikerts are glorious. r. - Original Message - From: diamondisk...@aol.com To: phono-l@oldcrank.org Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 9:50 PM Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Best sounding Phonograph

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2006-12-24 Thread Peter Fraser
List phono-l@oldcrank.org Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 9:00 PM Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Best sounding Phonograph comments interspersed below... Dan Kjeldgaard wrote: Bob also totally scr()wed me with Orthophonic and Edison rebuilds. Perhaps he'd lost his alleged touch by then, but both were

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2006-12-24 Thread Dan Kjeldgaard
pjfra...@alamedanet.net To: Antique Phonograph List phono-l@oldcrank.org Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 1:32 AM Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Best sounding Phonograph no, you're not very charitable at all, are you. On Apr 11, 2006, at 9:05 PM, Dan Kjeldgaard wrote: Well, after receiving garbage from

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2006-12-24 Thread Peter Fraser
Fraser pjfra...@alamedanet.net To: Antique Phonograph List phono-l@oldcrank.org Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 1:32 AM Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Best sounding Phonograph no, you're not very charitable at all, are you. On Apr 11, 2006, at 9:05 PM, Dan Kjeldgaard wrote: Well, after receiving

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2006-12-24 Thread Dan Kjeldgaard
Phonograph List phono-l@oldcrank.org Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 3:31 AM Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Best sounding Phonograph gee, i dunno. slandering a dead guy just doesn't seem right. but maybe it's ok for you, because he can't answer back. he had a lot of problems and he pissed off a lot

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2006-12-24 Thread Peter Fraser
impossible claims, and delivered nothing more. Whatever success he had must have been by pure chance. - Original Message - From: Peter Fraser pjfra...@alamedanet.net To: Antique Phonograph List phono-l@oldcrank.org Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 3:31 AM Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Best

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2006-12-24 Thread Dan Kjeldgaard
To: Antique Phonograph List phono-l@oldcrank.org Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 3:57 AM Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Best sounding Phonograph well, congratulations then, you finally got your money's worth by airing it all out in a public forum. hope you feel better. On Apr 12, 2006, at 12:50 AM, Dan

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2006-12-24 Thread Peter Fraser
: [Phono-L] Best sounding Phonograph gee, i dunno. slandering a dead guy just doesn't seem right. but maybe it's ok for you, because he can't answer back. he had a lot of problems and he pissed off a lot of people, but he also was way more dedicated to these old phonos than most of us could

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2006-12-24 Thread Robert Wright
pjfra...@alamedanet.net To: Antique Phonograph List phono-l@oldcrank.org Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 3:38 AM Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Best sounding Phonograph if calling a guy a bitter old cripple isn't slander to you, i'd hate to hear how you speak of your enemies. and even

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2006-12-24 Thread gregory caringi
. You are right on point, Randy. Greg Caringi From: diamondisk...@aol.com Reply-To: Antique Phonograph List phono-l@oldcrank.org To: phono-l@oldcrank.org Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Best sounding Phonograph Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 22:50:57 EDT In a message dated 4/11/2006 6:18:15 P.M. Eastern

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2006-12-24 Thread diamondisk...@aol.com
-Original Message- From: Robert Wright esrobe...@hotmail.com To: Antique Phonograph List phono-l@oldcrank.org Sent: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 23:29:55 -0500 Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Best sounding Phonograph I'd give just about anything to hear some low-key store-stock electrical DD's on a C-250. *sigh

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2006-12-24 Thread john robles
, and that's the point of our hobby. Nice is nice, yes? Accusing people of slander is possibly less than nice, no? Yes. - Original Message - From: Peter Fraser To: Antique Phonograph List Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 3:57 AM Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Best sounding Phonograph

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2006-12-24 Thread diamondisk...@aol.com
reproducers, and move on. Life is too short for unnecessary, and ultimately pointless acrimony. -Original Message- From: Dan Kjeldgaard ediso...@verizon.net To: Antique Phonograph List phono-l@oldcrank.org Sent: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 02:06:53 -0400 Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Best sounding Phonograph

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2006-12-24 Thread Loran T. Hughes
OK Folks, let's remember to keep the list civil. The wife and I are off to Denver this afternoon to visit with our Colorado phono friends. If I decide not to take my laptop along, I'll 'see' you all in a week. Loran

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2006-12-24 Thread diamondisk...@aol.com
Have fun, Loran. Leave the laptop at home. Randy -Original Message- From: Loran T. Hughes lo...@oldcrank.com To: Antique Phonograph List phono-l@oldcrank.org Sent: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 07:20:41 -0700 Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Best sounding Phonograph OK Folks, let's remember to keep

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2006-12-24 Thread zonophone2...@aol.com
HI ALL I HAD HIM REBUILD MY OPERA REPRODUCER AND A DIAMOND DISK ABOUT SIX MONTHS BEFORE HE DIED BOTH SOUNDED GREAT AND THE TONE WAS JUST A BIT HIGHER THAN A FRIENDS WHO HAD NOT HAD HIS DONE BY BOB YOU COULD HEAR THE HIGHS BETTER ON MINE THE ONLY PROBLEM I HAD WAS THE DIAMOND WAS NOT FIRMLY

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2006-12-24 Thread George Glastris
. - Original Message - From: diamondisk...@aol.com To: phono-l@oldcrank.org Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 5:56 PM Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Best sounding Phonograph In a message dated 4/13/2006 3:49:58 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, steve_nor...@msn.com writes: This is very interesting, Edison

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2006-12-24 Thread Robert Wright
Effect, but isn't the patent Thom's as well? thanks, r. - Original Message - From: diamondisk...@aol.com To: phono-l@oldcrank.org Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 5:56 PM Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Best sounding Phonograph In a message dated 4/13/2006 3:49:58 P.M. Eastern Standard Time

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2006-12-24 Thread George Glastris
, 2006 9:04 PM Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Best sounding Phonograph In a message dated 4/13/2006 9:11:31 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, esrobe...@hotmail.com writes: I know it's still called the Edison Effect, but isn't the patent Thom's as well? That I do not know. I do know that Lee De Forest