There definitely is. His name is Michael Fremmer.

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this month's Make Magazine, #14 (www.makezine.com) has DIY instructions to build a phonograph which plays back Edison cylinders. Surprisingly not that complicated, and there's probably lots of room for tweaking....

(I don't even own any 78s, but out there somewhere is the anarchophile who thinks that recorded sound went downhill when recordings went from vertically to laterally cut....)

Nice Freudian!

I like to think of myself as an "anarchophile."

Cool, I'lll then upsample it to DSD, downsample it to PCM copy to a CD-R, and watch how people hear how much better it sounds than the other wax cylinder players out there. I think we need to go back to the originals, wax cylinders are the most analog best sounding, since it had no electronics in the stream, it was the most exact copy of the voice. Mary had a little lamb......it doesn't get any better than that!!!! But you know the tweakers will find some kind of exotic wax, better sound through better wax. MF can start a waxophile magazine, for the true diehards, that want nothing but the best. For $100K you would think a Continuum could play all formats of analog, why can't it play WAX? Universal DIGITAL players for a few hundred dollars play multipile formats....WAX, the original direct to disc, must be the best. The original downconverter...a melting CANDLE, see your data flow.....so soothing, so warm.

Hi, I was just goofing on the "anarcho-phile" vs. the likely intended "anachro-phile," as in anachronism.

It was a charming typo.