Synergistic Red Fuse ...

Thanks for your replies. Over in the PS Audio fuse thread, one commenter has been rather vehement in arguing that SR fuses are very tilted and wrong sounding, accentuating the leading edge of transients over the natural bloom of instrumental texture and color. He claims the Audio Magic SHM beeswax fuse buries the SR black. What’s struck me in reading this Agon thread - and other comments on the PS Audio one - is that no one else has suggested anything similar about the Black. What he describes could be only relative, but normally shouldn’t need an A-B test to hear on the quality of equipment many here are using.

I have 7,000 78s and 100,000s of pre-LP recordings on CD and Vinyl. I play my 78s on a VPI 19-4 Ultracraft AC-400 and Grado elliptical cartridge.  While this cartridge is acceptable for most post 1925 electric recordings, I don't get the best sound out of my acoustic 78's due to the various stylus sizes needed to track them correctly.

 There is a new device called the sugar cube by simplyvinyl which eliminates pops and clicks and for now, gross surface noise from all recordings.   It is being designed with 300 equalization curves for use with 78s. It uses a closed wireless system using a computer, iPad, or phone.  It apparently does not alter the recording and has adjustable amount of noise eradication.  It even has a switch to hear exactly what noise is being removed.  Cost is $1500 and $2500 depending on additional features.  It upscales to 192/24 rate and outputs many multiple digital rates.  

As to 78s sound, they can be very exciting to hear in my high end system.  I especially enjoy Marston records CDs of historic singers and pianists.   Edison made near silent surfaced 78s from 1910-1914 which were never released so Ward Marston mastered 6 CDs with virgin pressings.  They had smaller grooves with extended playtimes at 6 minutes for 10" and 10 minutes for 12" records.  I can't wait to use the sugar cube on my 78s and defective LPs.

i could ramble on and on about.pre-LP recordings as they often contain rare and precious music.  

Right and wrong sounding is often purely in the mind of the listener.

FM Acoustics also makes a record denoiser device requires much more user knowledge (the sugar cube is simple to use). And sells for $37,500. Ouch!

OP the 78s I transferred were my parents mostly from around the early 1930’s. I heard and recall them when I was a kid and first fascinated with hifi and music on a variety of players from the 1950s.

What I hear now on my "good" system is not unlike what I heard then in terms of overall tonality (mostly midrange which makes for an interesting perspective on what is there given many things are not) but much more involving especially with my larger radial/omni OHM speaker based system since these speakers tend to make whatever comes through them sound like it is live in your room in terms of organic dimensional nature of the sound.

They are better than ever still even with more conventional speakers at work though.

I have one surviving 92 year old aunt in my family. I burned her a CD of these records from when she was a kid and she remembered them fondly and her face lit up when heard.