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The bonehead who came up with the "Sequence For Automatic Changers" should be put out in the sun for torture as follows:
> HANG FROM LEFT ARM AND RIGHT LEG
> STAKE DOWN RIGHT ARM AND LEFT LEG
I realize it's likely a holdover from the days of 78's when LvB's Ninth took NINE 12" shellacs! I guess I'd have had a changer too, in 1943...
[In an irrelevant aside, we note that Philips compromised on the 120mm diameter of the CD based on Norio Ohga's insistence fitting Furtwangler's 74-minute "Ninth" on a single disc. Urban legend???]
The Wikipedia article is pretty funny! Somewhere I have a box set of four LP's with 1&8, 2&7, 3&6 and 4&5-- damn them!
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I was delighted a few years ago when my wife found the Szell Beethoven symphony set on Epic, in lovely (is that a correct technical term?) condition. They are, however, in record changer sequence, while the later Columbia issue is in turntable order. It seems to me the Epics play better than the Columbias, and are worth the trouble. Does anyone know whether the Epic set was also issued in turntable sequence?
My original issue of the Toscanini Beethoven symphonies is also in changer sequence, as you would expect.
Don't know about the sequence but I have both, just as I do the Dvorak. The Epic Dvorak sounds better than the Columbia. With the Beethoven, it's the reverse.
Both Beethoven sets have the annoying hodgepodge of movements on sides you'd never suspect due to timings. Why couldn't Ludwig von have mad all his symphonies exactly 26 minutes? Or interminabubble, like Mahler. Then there could be 9 box sets, each with just one side you listen to more than once.
Solution - buy a second turntable.
I married the perfect woman. The downside is everything that goes wrong is my fault.
Edits: 10/24/16
The six disc set of the six Tchaikovsky symphonies on Mercury (Dorati/LSO) has all six symphonies split across 2 discs. On top of having to fish out 2 discs to play a symphony, they are numbered 1/12, 2/11, etc., so that if you flip over the 2 discs that play symphony #1, do you get #2? No, you get symphony #6. There's a special place in hell for the guy who came up with this idea. The only time this would make sense is if you had a changer and wanted to listen to all six symphonies in a row. The problem is that the set is so damned good that I have to put up with it. I did learn to put the discs into inner sleeves where you can see both labels. I had them in rice paper sleeves and it almost drove me nuts trying to play them.If you go back to the 78 era, it gets even weirder. There were two different kinds of changers, "drop" changers, the more common type, and "slide" changers. They required two different side arrangements for you to be able to flip the stack over and play the second half of the recording. Drop changers needed 1/6 2/5 3/4, while slide changers needed 1/4 2/5 3/6. Record companies issued sets in both formats.
Edits: 10/23/16
I routinely reach for single LPs instead of box sets for this reason, but also because the boxes themselves are just inconvenient enough to affect my choice (a first world problem if there ever was one). Don't even get me started on those foam inserts Philips used to use... Deteriorated foam EVERYWHERE!
Yes, it is a nuisance, but it is based on how we played records in the 1960s and earlier.
Do they still do the 1,4 and 2,3 on remasters? That would annoy me.
I do wonder when it was changed to 1,2 and 3,4. And if it varied by record company. The last album I remember being the old way in my collection was George Harrison's "All Things Must Pass". Geez, I just looked Stevie Wonder's "Songs In The Key Of Life" 1976 was still changer ready.
I'm digitizing some of my vinyl, so that solves the extra steps of swapping out those discs.
I'm going to do Wishbone Ash's "Live Dates" tonight.
Really, how many double albums do you have? I think I probably have lesx than 30,but that is just a guess.
Nawww... I think I DOUBLED UP on meds. Sometimes I forget. I have around 2500 LP's currently, down from a peak of about 3500. I've been selling off the duplicates and rejectoids, so it would take a while to count the doubles count the doubles.
What got me thinking so deeply about this thorny issue was an inmate recently asking for a recommendation regarding a record changer. Imagine-- A REKKID CHANGER, in this day and age! I like the guy.
Getting ready to pull out the Christmas LP record changer. I love spinning 6 records at a time and hearing that satisfying "Plop!" followed by the dulcet tones of Mel Torme singing Christmas tunes.
Have you considered digitizing those Christmas LPs, you could then do custom playlists.
And, please it is too fucking early to be thinking about Christmas. I try to ignore until Thanksgiving. Of course these days they start advertising right after Halloween. Which used to be my favorite holiday, no presents, costumes, I could be something or somebody else. Good parties, I miss that. After about 45, Halloween just becomes another nuisance. Buying candy for kids that don't live in my neighborhood. Bah humbug!
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