<story><title>78rpm Records Digitized</title><url>https://archive.org/details/georgeblood?tab=collection</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>reaperducer</author><text>Since the kids are all about sea shanties these days:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.org&amp;#x2F;details&amp;#x2F;78_rio-grande_leonard-warren-tom-scott-morris-levine_gbia0036362&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.org&amp;#x2F;details&amp;#x2F;78_rio-grande_leonard-warren-tom...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>78rpm Records Digitized</title><url>https://archive.org/details/georgeblood?tab=collection</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>css</author><text>The trouble with digitizing analog mediums (especially vinyl) is how much your equipment can alter the sound. Given a different tonearm, cartridge, amp, etc, the same record can sound very different.&lt;p&gt;I’ve had some luck digitizing some of my collection with a DP-450 [0] and Ortofon Blue [1], but had higher end stuff end up sounding less interesting to my ears.&lt;p&gt;This is the trouble with audio in general: people not only prefer different sound profiles but also perceive sound differently, which makes it difficult to get rips (at least in my limited experience).&lt;p&gt;There is a lot of sibilance in the recordings I sampled from the OP link, whoever did the digitization would have benefitted from cleaner records, probably an anti-static brush, a fresh cartridge, and possibly some post-processing since they’re already digital. It’s better than nothing, of course, but it could be a lot better.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.denon.com&amp;#x2F;en-us&amp;#x2F;product&amp;#x2F;turntables&amp;#x2F;dp-450usb&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.denon.com&amp;#x2F;en-us&amp;#x2F;product&amp;#x2F;turntables&amp;#x2F;dp-450usb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ortofon.com&amp;#x2F;ortofon-2m-blue-p-333&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ortofon.com&amp;#x2F;ortofon-2m-blue-p-333&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>