Thorens on 78rpm and DIY LED Speed control
We made our Thorens TD 125 MK II spin on 78rpm, but couldn’t measure the revolutions correctly. But there’s a simple DIY solution:
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Author: therollo
Mastering Dvořák
This is the story of the fully analog re-mastering work of a vintage consumer tape. Let’s take a look of what we did and how and why we did it.
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Ebay: Be very careful ..
All vintage music aficionados turn to Ebay to hunt for and to buy new records, tapes or other music sources. We literally bought hundreds of tapes without serious trouble – but now we ran into a fraud. And Ebay just doesn’t care. Here’s the story ..
Why is analog music important?
Although there are all those digital music technologies available, Rollofone still insists on analog tool chains to master and re-master audio. Why? Because we know that it makes a difference.
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So – what the big deal with Master Quality Authenticated ?
MQA -Master Quality Authenticated – is a music encoding method that allows to combine high definition audio content with relatively small file sizes and downward compatibility. Without a decoder, the quality is around CD (Red Book, 16 bit/22Khz) but a decoder will make the “Hi-Def” available – sort of. Here’s what you need to know .. […]
New Copyright For Old Recordings?
There are not that many people who care about vintage recordings. It takes the dedicated work of enthusiasts to hunt down old records or Edison cylinders, to restore them and to make them publicly available as part of our musical heritage. But all of this is in peril as a secretive new copyright bill makes Read more about New Copyright For Old Recordings?[…]
Laurel or Yanni? Time for the professionals to weigh in ..
Late Monday night, a tweet was posted by with a short audio-clip and people went nuts about it. Why? Because some were sure they heard “Laurel” while others were convinced that it said “Yanni”. How can that be? The answer is really simple actually … […]
Make It Stereo
We work with vintage music – unfortunately often in lowe(er) source quality and in Mono. However – with the right tools – one can re-create the BIG sound of the BIG bands in Stereo. While working on our “Strictly Analog” project we found a very nice 1958 Stereo tape containing the song “I Know Why Read more about Make It Stereo[…]
The Thing With The Speakers
We transfer and remaster a lot of tapes. Those tapes are all 50 years old or even older. They are degraded and need a lot of TLC. Unfortunately – the channels on the tapes degrade differently. […]
I Don’t Want a Jazz Band
While working on the liner notes for our upcoming Glenn Miller release (we are awaiting the test pressings shortly) – we used approved quotes from the bandleader himself. One of the more famous quotes is Miller’s complaint about people criticizing his “style” of music. […]