Shellac vs. Digital
SHELLAC vs. DIGITAL A while ago, the huge discussion started about sound quality of historic recordings and how they sound in public: "Blue Drag" German BRUNSWICK shellac pressing There are many reasons to complain, there are many reasons to love. We all see that some tracks exist in many different editions and „remasterings“ – and almost never those remasterings were made from an original historic (shellac) record. On these historic shellac records we usually only find two songs, one on each side (like “singles” in vinyl with 45 rpm). These shellac records are collectables, some are getting very rare, valuable and expensive, they are very heavy and fragile – and they are just lovely feeling and looking different and they are telling “stories” just by the pressing: just to imagine a German pressing of Billie Holiday, Count Basie or Joe Turner from 1939 seems crazy thinking of the political background at this thime... For a collector, it does not really...