Re: [ARSCLIST] Can 78s sound better than LPs?

["Milan P. Milovanovic" <mijel@xxxxxxxx>]

Steve,

What that "variable width groove" stands for, what is it really? Begginings 
of lateral type cut, or...?

Best wishes,

Milan


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven Smolian" <smolians@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Can 78s sound better than LPs?



> DGG made late 78s from tape rather than lacquer masters which used a 
> thinner groove of variable width which can sound terrific, even though the 
> groove is narrower than most other records contemporary with them, 
> including its own 78s.  Dunno why.  They were labelled "variable 
> micrograde."  I expect that, in part, their processing chain was more 
> careful than that for pressings made in the U.S. and England at the time.

> Steve Smolian