[old_tv_nut]

I no longer have any 78s. The surface noise of shellac records was always much greater than vinyl. Modern noise reduction techniques can reduce it quite a bit when transfering to digital media, usually without modulating the music unacceptably, but for direct play, high-cut is about the most you can do.

I know of one radio host that would play a blank shellac track in the background of his announcing. This would accustom your ear to the noise so that it would be less noticeable on the old records.

Now that my old ears roll off starting at 3 kHz, the noise wouldn't bother me as much, but I still listen to old records from digital transfers.