This thread got me looking. AFAIK Sheffield Labs is still making vinyl
direct-to-disk recordings. I'm sure that there are others. (But their
Thelma Houston "I've Got the Music in Me" recording will knock your
socks off! I see that it's available as a "Gold CD" here:
<
http://www.rockian.com.au/new02/10076n.htm>)
As to how a vinyl recording is made... Just point your browser to:
<
http://eil.com/explore/guide/vinyl_making.asp>
There's a whole lot to it...
Jim
Chris wrote:
>>I've never heard of ceramic records. Is this different than the old
>>bakelite reocrds?
>
>
> Don't know. I'm not a record expert, so maybe they aren't ceramic. I was
> told that was the material, and I know they are a hard, brittle, fragile
> glass or clay like substance (from the one that I broke).
>
> These are 1910-1920 era records (based on the fact that they carry the
> Victrola name, and IIRC, my Victrola has a 1913 date on the back)
>
> -chris
> <http://www.mythtech.net>
>
> .
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Received on Wed Sep 04 2002 - 00:27:00 BST