UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive

[coleb13]

If any of you feel like putting aside your hi-res downloads for a few moments to consider how this business of recorded music began, the University of California, Santa Barbara recently launched a new web site for their collection of 10,000+ cylinder recordings, available for streaming and downloading, and it is pretty fascinating:

 

UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive

[Norton]

You may also like this site at Kings College London - extensive FLAC archives of 78s for free download :

 

Sound files

 

Once you adapt to the SQ, I found it quite moving to listen to recordings and performances from a long past era and a different world from our own.