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Very confusing

This article makes no mention of Argo Records (UK) or of their connection. I have made a note on their talk page as well. Viriditas (talk) 00:52, 29 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

ffrr being all lowercase

In the article, the term "ffrr" is used lowercase every time. However, the Wikipedia page for "Sound recording and reproduction" has FFRR as capitalized, and capitalized is the way I have always seen FFRR aswell. I think changing to uppercase would be better, as FFRR is an initialism for "Full Frequency Range Recording", and initialisms are conventionally capitalized on each letter. 64.253.17.148 (talk) 17:02, 17 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like Decca used lowercase styling for this on their record labels (e.g. [1], [2]). MOS:CAPSACRS seems to indicate we should go with the lower case then. ~Kvng (talk) 14:36, 20 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the clarification, that makes sense. 64.253.17.148 (talk) 14:58, 7 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Overhaul

I've overhauled the article and removed or replaced extensive uncited material. I have also removed some detail that seems to me inappropriate for a general interest encyclopedia article such as the list of matrix numbers, but I'm more than willing to discuss if anyone is unhappy about my deletions. Tim riley talk 17:10, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well of course its a very good overhaul, as ever. One could perhaps add a sentence about "Phase 4" which people were very sniffy about... ; there is an interesting article in the Classical Recordings Quarterly by David Patmore (vol.79 p.42) or you may have other sources. I also think it could be expanded a bit about the link with radar - this might help: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decca_Navigator_System#Origins ? in the Second World War section. At least in the 60s and 70s they were very close companies and if you worked at Racal you could get a third off Decca LPs! Cg2p0B0u8m (talk) 22:27, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
PS where it says 'location', is that the current main office, after all it was in West Hampstead and on Albert Embankments... Cg2p0B0u8m (talk) 22:30, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I gave it a once over. The 1950s through 1970s sections could probably be tightened up more. I like the discussions of technology innovations. The Lead probably needs some fleshing out, but my brain is too fried right now. Is there a quote somewhere by a music magazine along the lines of "Decca is much better than EMI"? -- Ssilvers (talk) 04:28, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

American Decca and the start of MCA Records

We need to restore cited entries regarding the history of American Decca from the 1950s to its absorption into MCA Records in the early 1970s. Steelbeard1 (talk) 21:01, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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