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Pete Segaard wrote:. . . Was your turntable direct drive or belt drive, that would make a difference.
LOL. Remember how people used to argue about this one?
Direct Drive was truer speed because you could adjust the little strobe light to keep the turntable going at the right speed, but the belt-drive purists said that the direct-drive motor caused a background hum. . .
Actually, the strobes were on both types. Belt drive purists felt that the belt helped in dampening the vibrations. Direct drive pundits claimed that there were fewer fluxuations in the speed. Neither one really had an advantage over the other. The only real difference was that the direct drive turntables cost more, thus they must be better...
What the hell are these old people talking about?
Speak for yourself. I'm 27 and looking at over 300 of those vinyl discs (over 200 LP's, and at least 100 45's) in my living room right now. And we do play them on a fairly regular basis. No 78's though, our turntable doesn't have a 78 rpm setting. Someday we'll remedy that.
I suppose H2O's problem could be solved by a turntable like the one my high school creative writing teacher had in his classroom, which, instead of a speed selector switch, had a dial with marks at each of the three primary speeds. There was nothing stopping you from leaving it just shy of one of them though, thus achieving that coveted 76 rpm mark.
Black Crowes have bros and they did an almost note-for-note cover of Otis Redding and had a hit with it.
A lot of turntables have speeds between the standard settings of 78, 45 and 33.3. This allowed radio DJS in the old days to "juice" the music, speed it up just a little bit, 3-5%. The theory was it sounded a little better and popped out of the speakers more if it was juiced and, oh yea, a station could cram more songs and most importantly, more commercials into each hour if the songs were shorter because they were sped up. This is still done on the computer programs that run stations today, escpecially on top 40 type stations.
Oh yea, the Stiff Little Fingers just popped on I-tunes so I of course thought of the Undertones and the brothers O'Neill. "Teenage Kicks" possibly the apex of western culture. Those same brothers were also in That Petrol Emotion.
Ydfalcon wrote:
I suppose H2O's problem could be solved by a turntable like the one my high school creative writing teacher had in his classroom, which, instead of a speed selector switch, had a dial with marks at each of the three primary speeds. There was nothing stopping you from leaving it just shy of one of them though, thus achieving that coveted 76 rpm mark.
My speed selector went to 76 but my volume selector was the best part. Most of them went to "10" but I had mine souped up and I could take it to "11".
Ydfalcon wrote:
I suppose H2O's problem could be solved by a turntable like the one my high school creative writing teacher had in his classroom, which, instead of a speed selector switch, had a dial with marks at each of the three primary speeds. There was nothing stopping you from leaving it just shy of one of them though, thus achieving that coveted 76 rpm mark.
My speed selector went to 76 but my volume selector was the best part. Most of them went to "10" but I had mine souped up and I could take it to "11".
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