As well, it is written that a king is only seen in his glory, for example one is not allowed to see the king getting a haircut for example.

At least till another recording is discovered

With the Rebbe Rashab we know it was a passport photo or was supposed to be from what I heard.

There are two tracks of just the Freierdiker Rebbe talking, and another one of

It does seem from the audio quality that it was recorded from the playing record (not direct from the wire Recorder in a professional way)
It would be great if the original record be made public, I’m sure with a clearer audio there will be more to decipher.

The audio clip here is selected phrases and words that the listener manage to decipher.

The full audio is much longer

Only known recording so far

is the recording available in another format other than yu tube?

Thanks to the family who gave it out.

the rest of the tracks are nigunim, not the frierdiker rebbe speaking

from what i recall this was not to be publicized out of respect to the frierdiker rebbe.

למה לי קרא סברא היא it’s a basic Hergesh. People had it for years but it’s very different to publicize.