A New Stereo Audiophile 78 RPM Record in 2019: The Chicago Cellar Boys 

The return of the 78 rpm record after 60 years is so freaking cool man. Great job boys.

This is 78rpm record with microgroove like LP, that's why it sounds so good.

Just shows That 78rpm records are here to stay and what a loud crisp sound.What a good job

This is amazing, now we know how a 1920s Jazz Age band would sound using today’s recording standards. And cutting the vinyl at 78 rpm is the icing on the cake. Technically modern cutting lathes can work at any speed, but the fact that most modern TTs lack 78 rpm support is perhaps the reason we don’t see many of these around. Great work :)

As a owner of this 78, I must say, it is the finest 78 I have ever heard, in regards to sound quality. It only gets played on my REK-O-Kut CVS with an SC35C from Shure, and people purchasing, this particular 78 is played with a normal LP stylus, not a 78 stylus.

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!

That sounds so good. It's very detailed. The cool thing is that speed, there should be no inner groove distortion due to diameter loss, because even though it's significantly slower than on the outer groove, the speed of the record itself should make it unnoticeable. Thank you for sharing.

78 RPM could be a good candidate for HD vinyl.

How could anyone not just absolutely LOVE this stuff ?!?!?

I bought the entire Rivermont 78 collection. If they produce more, I'll buy them. Sound doesn't get any better than this.

Sounds way better than a 45, Congratulations. I love older sound formats,and a stereo 78 is good, and excellent music.

I have 2 of the Rivermont records and they sound absolutely wonderful. I wish there were hundreds more.

Except for the noise floor, it sounds like 7.5 ips direct-to-tape. It's got that snap, punch and in-your-face presentation that most 33 1/3 records don't have. This is maybe as good as 15 ips.

This is so cool. Excellent musicians. 😊👍👍

Imagine hearing one of these back in 1900. That's crazy.

There used to be this "Audiophile" label in the 1950s that issued jazz sides on 78RPM red vinyl (mono), I have one of those.

I'm very much excited to see 78rpm recordr are produced in 2019 !! It's really something I love too much.

Wow! Love this kind of music and love 78's!! I have three old phonographs and also a new one that plays 78's! Love to know they made a comeback!!

Sounds great. Of course, at 78rpm, the dynamic range would be enormous and you'd have other benefits, including high frequency response and stereo separation. The only drawback is the loss of recording time. One could occasionally buy hi-fi recordings on 12" microgroove virgin vinyl played at 45 in the 70s and 80s and the difference was noticeable - transients just punched!

Love the Cellar boys sound.

I just LOVE IT. Since my childhood I always love the sound of those old recordings. The background, the cracs, pops etc... never did bother me! THANKS for sering.

By having it at 78 RPM it's like running a cassette tape at a higher speed, less possible noise from the medium meaning you can have better fidelity and better frequency response.

This was definitely a worthwhile purchase of mine back in April 2022!

I have purchased most of these new 78's. They sound fantastic.

I grew up in the era of 33's and 45's, My mother was a good singer and recording some 78 LP's but they were so badly scratched I never realized how good they sounded.

This is the quality they wished records could have sounded 100 years ago.

Awesome sound! If all 78s could be recorded with the LP groove I think 78s could come back with a bang.

Now that's the way Jazz should sound! That's the best I ever heard a record sound. Excellent job guys! Great band and great tunes! I 💜 Jazz so much.

Bloody hell this is good. Heading to your website now!

As for recording original 78's, power is the key. My homemade turntable is driven with a 1/4 hp dc motor, and has a magnetic pickup from the 1930's that features a removable needle. This is connected to a Valve amp, homemade, single ended, not push pull, with lots of high tension volts (1,000 volts) available for the transmitting tetrode, to give a huge dynamic headroom. A valve (twin triode) pre amp as well as including a speaker transformer with a modern speaker attached, means the recording path is somewhat attenuated by the frequency response of the output transformer. The setup sound great, even on badly scratched records. This plays the records as they were originally meant to be played.

Even the vinyl Bell 7 inch 78s from the 50s sound pretty damn good when played on decent equipment! And they were budget singles!

Great rendition of music from a time gone by. Keep the music alive. Great job. Thank you for sharing.

Makes CDs sound lacking. Even the internet doesn't do the work justice. Well done!

Super cool 😊 78 Tours. Merci

Great to see young people bringing back REAL music!!! We need to kill off that noise that has been labeled "music" for the last 60 years!!

Hope this takes off more artists releasing singlesthis way for the sound quality

Just got my copy of the 78. Love it! Press them and we will buy lol

If only I could afford this record...

Bravo! What an awesome endeavor...Good luck to all. Small suggestion, future videos of the band: All should dress the part for the era...Sort of like the banjo player....He looks like he stepped right out of the pages of time. Again, this is really fabulous project!

Thank goodness stereo micro groove records are being made in 2019! I’ve been waiting for this for a very, very long time. Excellent music on an excellent quality, analogue format! Thank you to all that made this possible. Please keep recording and releasing these wonderful 78s! All the best, Gavin. (A budding ‘audiophile’ from Bristol, in England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)

The annoying part is that the vast majority of modern phonographs only play at speeds 33 and 45.

I'm excited to see 78 microgroove become a new novelty! It sounds very crisp for what it is! I can just imagine, with all the new players these days with 3 speed, making "master quality" EPs/singles with all that groove/second, oh gosh! I love this

I think 78s can actually sound better than the other speeds due to the fast motion, and the fact that the information is spread out. Cool video. Great music too!

Superb sound quality.

Very nice! In Germany the is also the Palast Orquestra with his singer Max Raabe. They also play the repertoire of music of the 20s and 30s.!

Absolutely fantastic !

These Fella`s are GREAT! They know their 1920`s Music indeed! I PRAY that they are still Making Record`s and or playing!

The band looks as old as the music sounds. Nice to see that 78's are coming back!! Some rock band did an entire album of them not too long ago.

Beautiful!

It helps that these were pressed on vinyl. The last of the 78's that were made from the late 40's throughout even the 60's were pressed on vinyl and in the then new microgroove format. High quality microphones help as well. Also, the stylus we use now for records (and particularly listening to 78's) are far superior in quality to the old "cactus" style needles used on gramophones and record players way back in the day. Mastering at high speeds also accounts for greater fidelity. This is common practice when recording to analog tape.

Fantastic !!!

Instantly sold.

Absolute analog quality, probably better than hi-res digital

If I ever release my tunes on vinyl, it's gonna be like this lol.

Sounds super will look for this on line

sounds amazing I have a lot of 78's and a friend has a juke box 78

That sounds way better than I had expected! But then again 45rpm 12" records also sounded way better then the 33rpm record version of the same track. And I didn't even own a propper record player...

Excellent sound, I'm fan of 78 r.p.m. is the best and quality sound super hi-fi with microgroove. Congratullations. My name is Edward and I live in Argentina and I have 72 years old.

I used to have an actual 1930s 78 of "Hello, Beautiful", which they included on this disc. "Hello, beautiful / How'd you get so beautiful? / How'd you get that sunshine in your smile?...Tell me, beautiful / How can you be dutiful? / And still be mother's angel child?"

Folks, it is the "writing speed". Same magic occurs with tape. Ever listen to records made from 30 IPS full track mono tapes from the fifties? Writing speed.

absolutely blown away by this. Fantastic, love old music

I have all Rivermont 78's.

Great performance, I have them all and just ordered that one as well. Superb to see + hear John Otto in this band, looking very much forward to yet another quality record!

"Extended play" 78 discs (usually lasting about five to six minutes) were issued in the early 1950's by "cheap" outfits offering "soundalikes" of hit pop tunes.

The 78's were much aligned for some reason. I like the look and feel of one. It's li,e you got,your money's worth for,a decent product. Bravo cellar,boys!

Nicely done!

This is so rad!

Incredible Players looking forward to buying this

I know I'm late, but I think cutting at 78 is a great way to make records. At that speed there can be a lot more groove modulation and even the highest frequencies will be well recorded.

pretty neato, immediately recognized the 440mla cart on the LP120 lol

Very cool. I collect old rock / r & b / blues 78s... they sound pretty good with the right cartridge and stylus. 78s are my favorite format

I ♥️ record 78s

Incredible Jazz Band!!! Glorious Guys!!!

Damn these sound good! Really, really good! And that's with youtube adding lossy compression. Would love to own one of these.

Wonderful!

Thank you very much its so great to hear these recordings

This is really great, your music and the audiophile sound of the record! Great idea, must be a lot better than a 45 rpm 12 inch!

******* SUPER!!

Awesome

Amazing🙏🙏🙏🙏👍👍👍👍

Was very surprised to see you still had these in stock. I quickly bought one and can’t wait until I can play it.

Speed play an important role in the quality of 78 record

Incredible sound. Would this be considered Dixieland jazz? Some high quality toe tapping audio there!

Wonderfull

Awwww... I thought this was going to be shellac played on an acoustic record player...

Wow beautiful!!! Enjoy this a lot!!🎶💚😜

nice work! respect!!!

What a great band I can dig that ok too

I LOVE THIS! Awesome to see a BEAUTIFUL 78 RPM Record Playing! And this Band! I LOVE THEM! I do hope that Rivermount Records are still in business, And Apollo Masters was not the source of Your masters! Sadly they had a fire this AWFUL Year! I would be a Groupie for these AWESOME Fella`s indeed!

Awesome!!! ☆☆☆☆☆

78rpm vinyl record ！

Your stage should look like a giant gramophone - love it

Towards the end of 78 rpm making, a few vinyl 78's with narrow grooves were vailable. I heard a couple of these recordings at a collector's home and they were amazing. But even the 12 inch records did not hold enough music for most classical recordings to be made with only one disc. Hence the ascendency of the 33-1/3 microgroove recordings. As a child, when I heard my first 33-1/3 record, it was the playing time that amazed me. This was before the "high fidelity" revolution when quality reproduction was becoming regarded as important, and by then the 33-1/3 rpm recordings were ubiquitous -- high-speed vinyl records could never gain traction in the Long Play market. Records that were made with variable groove pitch and which tried to keep the recorded surface as far to the outside of the record were pretty good, but the only one I can remember today was Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto #2 which was released on a single LP, occupying both sides of the record. Most manufacturers spread the grooves out as far as possible to make it look like there was more music on the record. The sound suffered in the inner grooves. It was similar to the marketing of fresh produce today. Make it look as good as possible, and to hell with the quality. Sigh ...

I liked that a lot. Thumbs up 'ain't good enough. Great idea nicely presented.

Omg 😳 amazing

Beautiful, I love the Brunswick style label on them, it would be cool if you guys could produce copy’s of the songs you recorded and make them with the original wide grooves.

Great stuff 👒 Makes sense actually, at this speed it's like a hi-fi 45 😎 In the evolution of records, after moving to vinyl manufacturers never got the speed back to 78 although with microgrooves it's bound to be a more than sufficient playing time at high quality, especially with modern recording equipment 🎵 So this is like from an alternate universe - a steampunk record 🎩

Very nice

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Amazing! Absolutely amazing.