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Article: Arts: Blast from the past Remastering 78rpm records nearly a century old requires highly sophisti cated equipment. That's why Nimbus Records have assembed their state-of-the-art gramophone. Forget digital, it's playback time.
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 16, 1999
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As soon as you come through the door of the concert hall at Nimbus
Records near Monmouth, the enormous horn hits you right between the
eyes. Figuratively and very nearly literally. It's a 22ft-long
monster that looks like the surrealistic product of a design
partnership forged between Jules Verne and W Heath Robinson.
Constructed by a boat-builder out of glass fibre to a shape worked
out by a computer following an obscure mathematical formula, the
technology is a satisfyingly weird hybrid of old and new, science
fiction and fact.
At its narrow end, the mighty horn is connected to a professional
Technics quartz transcription turntable via a modified Thirties EMG
Expert "sound- box". The ...