Re: [ARSCLIST] 16" transcription player on ebay

["joe@xxxxxxxxxxx" <jsalerno@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have also encountered early 50s microgroove 16" lacquers

Joe S

David Lennick wrote:
> And the CBC's aircheck lacquers are microgroove from a point in the mid 
> 60s (and they sound horrible, by the way..levels too low, disc noise too 
> high). C. P. Macgregor also syndicated 16" microgroove transcriptions in 
> the 60s..I have several.
>
> dl
>
> Sam Brylawski wrote:
> > Late (mid-1950s-1959 when they switched to 12") AFRTS 16" pressings were
> > microgroove. Lots at LC.
> >
> > Sam
> >
> > On 9/5/07, Steven Smolian <smolians@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > I'be never seen a non-experimental 16" 33 that used a 1 mil groove- 
> > > always
> > > a
> > > 2.5 mil, though I own a couple cut at 1 mil by Mirko Paneko in the later
> > > 40s.
> > >
> > > I visited him in Stamford, I believe it was, a few times.  He claimed to
> > > be
> > > the inventor of the LP and that Goldmark instigated the paperwork.  
> > > Mirko
> > > died before I could persue this in any depth.
> > >
> > > His name is now widely forgotten, but in his day he was well known for
> > > making audio systems for the rich, musical and famous, Toscanini being
> > > among
> > > that number.
> > >
> > > Steve Smolian