Living Stereo - RCA Victor

Living Stereo - RCA Victor - old public information film (US)

I've been very busy recenty converting the videos and recently set up another account - I have uploaded a lot more videos there - check it out - http://www.youtube.com/CharacterControl

The videos on my other account have more complete descriptions, and dates wherever possible, and some similar videos called "RCA 21-inch TV Screen", "RCA Hide-Away TV" (1959), "RCA Victor Commercial", "The RCA 16mm Sound Projector" and "An RCA Presentation: Television" (1939) - if RCA is your thing!

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Entertainment

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• Living
• Stereo
• RCA
• Victor
• old
• public
• information
• film

[BillyRockfish]

Living Stereo! Presented on film . . in "Dead Mono"!!

[MarkPMus]

They'll never catch on you know! BTW he was describing how ceramic cartridges work. Nowadays we (should) use Moving Magnet (or for those wealthier souls Moving Coil) cartridges. these work differently, sound better and place much less wear on the record. What a marvellous canyon of sound they produce! Wooo hoo! Thanks for posting Paul, and 5 stars.

[Stereo4102]

@OldMusicOnVinyl1 I Still have it, but I can't upload it due to SME's whinings.

RCA-VICTOR: My main reason to hate Sony Music!

[OldMusicOnVinyl1]

The Living Stereo version of Belafonte at Carnegie Hall has so much crisper highs than the New Orthophonic High Fidelity version! I can tell because I own both versions on vinyl!

[toasteroven427]

It's amazing to think that all that random bumping, bouncing, and pulling creates a sound that's music!

So if this is living stereo, what does dead stereo sound like?

[DSM1G90]

@TheFRiNgEguitars Most definitely true! When one sees a vinyl and hunt for spindle trails on the label is a good give-away "footprint" on how many times that reverse surface has been played. Some labels are more easier to pick out spindle trails than others. But in a whole, it's not too hard to find them. thx!

[TheFRiNgEguitars]

@DSM1G90 Yes, only certain tiltles have that kind of value (100.00 or more) They must be low stamper numbers, and also in pristine condition. Most yead sale finds are not in good enough shape to be worth anything. Keep in mind that many of these old stereo pickups were unkind to records, The fidelity of these records can only be realized if theyre not damaged or worn. VERY little wear will make them harsh sounding, thus worthless!

[APyleOfVinyl]

@DSM1G90 Okay that is making more sense. The original copy of the Gaite Parisienne is as common as mud, stereo or mono with the shaded dog and everything.

[DSM1G90]

@Anderskh He's prob thinking of the Bartok-Concerto for Orchestra/Reiner. That one was the LSC-1934

[DSM1G90]

@APyleOfVinyl No, the actual Red Seal Releases. I have two copies of the LSC-1817 - both with 5s/10s matrix stampers. I tagged one for 50 cents at a garage sale, the other at a thrift store for a dollar. Last time that I saw one of these Living Stereo releases on eBay went for over $300.00 ... to China.

[APyleOfVinyl]

@DSM1G90 I found a copy for a dollar...Do you mean test pressings?

[TheFRiNgEguitars]

As much as I love RCA ortho tube record players, and they sounded magnificent.. the stereo upgrades of these machines were ill conceived from the beginning. The arm was short, and the tracking error was enormous at the outer bands of 12" records, (RCA promoted 45's thus designed machines for them) For stereo, the tracking force was excessive, and record wear very high. RCA was not innovative enough to redesign their new Stereo systems to do justice to the Living Stereo records they produced.