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Lucky you! I need to pick up a new one ... or find someone to fix my old Pioneer PL-7.
Fixing the old Pioneer would be the BEST option! My wife got me the Audio Technica clone of the Technics 1200 series, and it's pretty cool. I do think I need to change the cartridge as the one that comes with it is OK, but nothing to write home about.
I LOVE vinyl and wish everyone would go back to analog mastering so that we could get the full benefit of new music on vinyl. I know some of the newer artists are putting their stuff on vinyl, but it still comes from digital masters.
Lucky you! I need to pick up a new one ... or find someone to fix my old Pioneer PL-7.
Ones sell on Ebay for less than $50.... or a 'buy it now' for $80. Go look.
Snap, crackle, pop, rumble, and there is nothing like getting subsonic feedback (and this is even in my sound booth).
I'm pretty sure it predates the 1960s. "Talking books" for the blind used that speed IIRC.
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A number of recordings were pressed at 162⁄3 rpm. Prestige Records released a number of jazz records in this format in the late 1950s, for example, Baritones and French Horns. Peter Goldmark, the man who developed the 331⁄3 rpm record, developed theHighway Hi-Fi 162⁄3 rpm record to be played in Chrysler automobiles, but poor performance of the system and weak implementation by Chrysler and Columbia led to the demise of the 162⁄3 rpm records. Subsequently, the 162⁄3 rpm speed was used for radio transcription discs or narrated publications for the blind and visually impaired, and were never widely commercially available, although it was common to see new turntable models with a 16 rpm speed setting produced as late as the 1970s.
My grandfather had a record player specifically designed for the records for the blind. FWIW, I've also seen 16" records used in radio, and watched my father make reverse cut records (the needle was placed at the center of the record and worked its way out to the perimeter to allow the cuttings to be safely brushed away from the cutting stylus).
I LOVE vinyl and wish everyone would go back to analog mastering so that we could get the full benefit of new music on vinyl. I know some of the newer artists are putting their stuff on vinyl, but it still comes from digital masters.
Indeed. Nothing better than analogue!!!
And YES your right,new records ARE NOT WORTH JACK.... Its all digital put on the record,they are too lazy to do it the way they used to be done in the 80s and earlier SO WHY BOTHER??
She looks beautiful!! (Looks like a 70s player) -- Has all 4 speeds (16/33/45 and 78) -- I havent ever had a player with 16!!
Has anyone ever heard any records recorded @ 16?? -- I have heard 78s but not a 16,is it good sounding??
My grandparents had a wind up steel needle 16/33 RPM record player. Listened to it when I was a youngster... The music sounded awesome back then (because there was nothing better)....
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I need to pick up a new one ... or find someone to fix my old Pioneer PL-7.
