[Phono-L] Vertical versus lateral records

[DanKj]

How does this explain the often astonishingly realistic & clear recordings 
of other vertical companies, such as Everlasting, Pathe, and Majestic?  I 
still say that when speaking of ACOUSTIC recording and playback,  vertical 
was superior.



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>    With regard to Edison's early cylinder recordings sounding better than
> Victor's, I agree with that sentiment.  But not because of any intrinsic
> superiority of the vertical over the lateral technology.  It's really the
> opposite, as I've stated above.  Edison's better sounding recordings are a
> result of his engineers taking more effort to have properly functioning
> equipment and his engineers general preference for getting the talent 
> closer
> to the recording horn and with recording in relatively acoustically "dead"
> environments.  These preferences lead to capturing more high frequency
> content in the recording.  Edison's engineers also are known to have been
> very careful to choose the recorder that best matched the nature of the
> music and the talent, that is different recorders were used for selections
> featuring a solo vocalist than were used for band recordings or were used
> for massed voices, etc.  Victor and Columbia probably weren't as careful 
> in
> the early days about these details of their acoustic recording setups.
>
> Greg Bogantz