Linda & Johnny just a while ago...

[Conelrad]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh6Re-f ... fE&index=8

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[electra225]

Linda Ronstadt did a good duet with Johnny. Better than the nasally June Carter. I have this song by Hank Snow and Anita Carter. I wasn't aware that anyone else had recorded it. Dennis, if you like country, you should come up here some Saturday and we'll jam......

[Conelrad]

My "Country" stuff ends about 1955, with a lot of pre-war 78's. I don't remember if I posted a foto of my audition system for them.

Starts out with a modern QRK multi-speed TT with a vintage GE VRII mono cart & 3 mil diamond.

Then into a vintage Presto amp, University crossover, and on to an Altec 515 LF and 806 HF on a Stephens horn.

More or less all rack mounted, and a vintage WECo VU meter panel.

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If you get a chance, please rotate the image for me. I just don't know when it will go goofy.

[TC Chris]

Love the vintage rig! It probably gives the same satisfying sound that the record-preview system at Lucky's Record Shop gave in the early '60s. Just a big sound, starting with a happy thump when the stylus hit the lead-in groove. I think theirs used a VR II also.

Chris Campbell

[Conelrad]

One thing virtually unknown about 78s from the late 30's on was there were two types produced for virtually every hit tune: Direct to disc for broadcast distribution, and consumer records done with audio compression mainly to prevent groove jumping on loud passages.

Radio stations got those discs, as they had an audio compressor in the chain just before the transmitter input. Turns out one audio compressor following another sounds horrible.

I have several disc titles in both types, and one can really hear the difference.

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[danrclem]

If you get a chance, please rotate the image for me. I just don't know when it will go goofy.

I clicked on the image and it rotated itself.

Very nice system you have there. You can't go wrong with Altec Lansing and Stephens.

[Conelrad]

Miracles will never cease!

Thanks for the kudos.

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