[Dixielandjazz] The New Music Reproduction Technology

[Steve Barbone]

"Phil O'Rourke" <philor at webone.com.au> wrote (polite snip)
 
> I am wondering how "Busta Hyman & the penetrators" or whatever there name is
> this week will do in 50 years time, when they are approaching middle age,
> when they wish to listen to their early recordings that only went to iPod or
> whatever.
> Nobody yet knows for sure how stable CDs are, whether commercially produced
> or "burned" at home (shouldn't the commercial ones be called burned and home
> produced CD called dyed or something similar?).
> We all know tape isn't a secure medium without a lot of work, even vinyl
> isn't as good as the old 78s but we can still listen to old? recordings
> without buying equipment that isn't too specialised.

That brings up a question. Just how stable is an old 78? How many plays
before it degrades? How long will it last if never played. How would we
know, if we never played it?

Has anybody played one of those 85 year old 78's lately to determine this?

Cheers,
Steve Barbone