Replying to a message of Shawn Highfield to bob klahn:

 SH> On Jan 13, 2008 01:56am, bob klans wrote to TOM WALKER:

 bk>>  These are LP records, not CDs. Your point on Wav files is good,
 bk>>  if you have the drive space.

 SH>   Or you can use OGEE Vorbus which doesn't loose any of the sound
 SH> quality. Though my personal opinion is to keep those LP's as vinyl
 SH> sounds better.  Yeah the value might go down if you play them, but
 SH> hell they were made to be played so to hell with value.

Perhaps.  However, buried in this pile of bakelite, vinyl and lacquer (and
audio CDs )
are two brand spanking new copies of Kate Smith's 1938 recording of 'God
Bless America'
on the original Victor 78 rpm disks.  Also some brand spanking new Bing
Crosby and the Andrews Sisters 78 rpm Decca recordings from a bit later. 
*None* of those are going to
get played by me.  I also suspect they're worth a bit more than I paid for
them 35 years
ago (a second hand store in Bellevue, NE, had acquired the back room unsold
stock of an
old record store that had closed years before, and I bought all of it for a
single price - if
memory serves about fifty bucks for four apple crates full of brand new 78s).


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