78 r.p.m. records

[Electronic M]

I've been into Big Band/Swing music most of my life so I have a collection of 78s. Probably around 200-300 but I haven't catalogued them yet the way I catalogued my LP collection earlier this year.

One thing I know about most 78s is don't play them on equipment with HiFi era amplification...If the equipment doesn't roll off the high frequency enough the record noise will be too distracting.

I have a few VDiscs that appeared to never have been played on heavy tracking phonos that have very little scratch compared to most used 78s I've owned. What really chews them up is mechanical phonographs and some of the pre-War electrical pickups that tracked heavy.