Allerdings dauert es länger den Bluetooth Lautsprecher mit dem Smartphone zu verbinden, als das Model-T zu starten. Dafür entschädigt die moderne Technik dann mit einer Musikauswahl, die genau für das Model-T passen. Das ganze hört sich dann so an.
For New Year's Eve I have a very special blog. It's about the music while driving. I did not want to and could not do without it and always have a Bluetooth speaker on the seat and listen quite stylish music from the 10s and 20s.
However, it takes longer to connect the Bluetooth speaker to the smartphone than it does to start the Model-T. The modern technology then compensates for this with a music selection that fits the Model-T exactly. The whole thing then sounds like this.
Today I ask myself whether it would have been possible to listen to music while driving in 1916. That's why I'm now going to do the big comparison test "Bluetooth vs Shellac". After all, there were already shellac records and also transportable gramophones. I also remember a scene in a movie of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, where they had a gramophone built into a Model-T. So let's try it out and see if it really works.
Here we have a mobile record player of the French brand Henry and the Victor record Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra "From Monday On" with Bing Crosby and the legendary cornet solo by Bix Beiderbecke from 1928.
In a direct comparison, the design of the gramophone emerges as the clear winner. It is discreet in a noble Bordeaux red when closed and turns into an elegant appearance when the lid is opened. The Megaboom Bluetooth speaker from Ultimate Ears comes in subtle black and remains discreet in appearance no matter what you do with it. The only enhancement to the Boom is a flashing LED.
The Henry turntable even has a feature that the Bluetooth speaker does not: You can adjust the playback speed.
Now comes the audio comparison. The record player is quieter than the Bluetooth speaker. The playback noise, the mechanical motor with the centrifugal governor and the scratching of the needle are also clearly audible. The modern technology can clearly win here. The digitized recording sounds better. Bix Beiderbecke's cornet shines above the orchestra and Min Leibrook's bass saxophone pushes the orchestra from the depths in front of it and saws the roof open.
Maybe a funnel gramophone can get more out of the recording. Let's try a Pathephone No4 funnel gramophone for comparison.
Yes, the large gramophone has significantly more sound volume.
But maybe with a different needle, you can get more sound out of the portable turntable. Tomorrow it continues.