This is wonderful news! Interesting listening to their snippet of the recording and Fuller is talking about problems getting enough houses for people.<p>I’d be very interested to listen to more of these recordings. But this:<p>“The Fuller wire recordings can now be streamed in the Special Collections reading room at Green Library.”<p>You mean to tell me I’ve got to physically go to a library at Stanford to listen to this? Even the sample audio is an unlisted video. That YouTube channel doesn’t have the rest of the recordings. Disappointing. Perhaps I am misunderstanding but it seems the preservation was funded by a donor yet Stanford is keeping the recordings for those with the privilege to listen on site. Is that correct?
If you're interested in this obsolete format, Techmoan did a great video about wire recorders:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90ihiTwJPCc" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90ihiTwJPCc</a>
Am I the only one, who finds the second sample has the more natural sounding equalization?
The noise can be improved, but the third one sounds somewhat off, with too much hum in the lower frequencies.
Sound quite tricky to figure out a true neutral curve.<p><a href="https://music.washington.edu/magnetic-wire-recordings" rel="nofollow">https://music.washington.edu/magnetic-wire-recordings</a><p>"But the input circuit would have to be designed to take the exact level and impedance that was generated by the original head, and there would have to be a recalculation of what the original equalization curve of wire recording was. It probably would not work with a stock amplifier--Theoretically it would be best to rebuild a new amplifier to get the lowest noise specs, but if you only have a small number of wires to dub then it would be an expensive exercise for just a few items. With dozens or hundreds of wires it might be worthwhile. The old amps from those machines were very noisy, and are much worse now that their parts have aged so much."<p>Doing this purely digitally might of cause be easier these days.<p>see also:<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIAA_equalization#The_RIAA_curve" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIAA_equalization#The_RIAA_cur...</a>