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Curious record side labeling

Do any of the jazz gurus on here know why some double-set records have this curious side labeling where record 1 has sides A and D, and record 2 sides B and C? It does not make much sense to me, and I wonder what purpose it serves other than to confuse the listener. I noticed this with a couple of Coltrane records from the '60s, recently with "The Other Village Vanguard Tapes."
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elizabeth
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"surely outnumbered changers"" ?? hey, back when those records were pressed most folks had record changers.
ORDINARY people had record changers.
Only the few crazy audiophiles had single play turntables..
larryi
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The only advantage to automatic sequencing is that it can be handy for listening to some operas. There are a few that have interesting opening material and great endings with a lot of "filler" in the middle. If you can just flip over a record to go from side 1 to 4 or 1 to 6 or 1 to 8, that might be an advantage--I might do that with, for example, Der Rosenkavalier."
jazzcourier
201 posts
 
Yeah! Lets hear it for Garrard....Stack em' and track em'.
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yogiboy
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Many of my gatefold albums from the seventies or before come in that format. Most of them are bluegrass music. I just love to play them on my good old BSR with a ceramic cartridge tracking at about six grams or more. The sonics are to die for!
rshak
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I try to avoid auto-sequenced sets, which are a *pain* to deal with if one has a manual TT. When buying used multi-LP sets, I always ask if the records are in auto or manual sequence. Auto sequence is usually a deal breaker for me.
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