Restoring a 1905 Edison-Bell Wax Cylinder Recording with Opus and GPT-5.5
generativist · x · 2026-09-10
A user with an audio forensics background ran multiple restoration passes on a 1905 Edison-Bell phonograph recording (of Charles Spurgeon's son) using Claude Opus and GPT-5.5 — the results were surprisingly decent.
He then had fable and astra independently push further, but neither got very far: the takeaway is that audio restoration still requires trained ears, so pure vibe coding has a ceiling. A longer writeup written by fable and a side-by-side demo are linked, plus a YouTube mirror.
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