MontyVeda
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Even the latest Technics 2010 will play 78s...
...by pressing both 33 and 45, which adds up to 78
How do we buy music these days?....
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Even the latest Technics 2010 will play 78s...
...by pressing both 33 and 45, which adds up to 78
Grant Fondo
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Even the latest Technics 2010 will play 78s...
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...by pressing both 33 and 45, which adds up to 78
I wish i had buttons on my Rega. You have to take the platter off and fiddle with the belt to change from 33 to 45. Bit of a faff.
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
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- Lancaster... the little city.
Grant Fondo
Guru
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- Cheshire
I have stopped buying new vinyl now. Even a year ago it was 50% cheaper. A lot that i bought for under £15 off amazon are double that now, so Spotify to the rescue.
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
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depends. HMV take the pith but quite a few new LPs in my Discogs watch list are cheaper now than they were a year or three ago.
Alex321
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Right at the end of the 50's. They were made up to 1958 in the US, and into the 60's in some other places such as the Philippines.
Sinatra's first single was released in 1939! His first solo single in 1942.
His first album was in 1946.
The first 33⅓ LPs came along in 1948, the first 45s in 1949.
Elvis, BTW, started recording in 1954, so only overlapped 78s by about 4 years.
winjim
Smash the cistern
I need something I can install on her tablet and leave her with essentially unsupervised.
Badger_Boom
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Flanders and Swann have a suggestion to rectify the problem in the opening lines of their Song of Reproduction.
AndyRM
XOXO
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lazybloke
Priest of the cult of Chris Rea
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I remember finding a bunch of 78s in the garage when I was circa 8 years old.
Our music centre amp had died, but the turntable rotated... so I made a gramophone cone from rolled sheets of paper and a sewing needle. It worked! (sort of).
Of course, the turntable only had 33 or 45 speeds, so I had to hold the cone with one hand, and use the other hand to manually "wind" the turntable at approx 78 rpm.
It was a terrible introduction to Elvis, and "Can't help falling in love".
winjim
Smash the cistern
Shout out to the Rock Box, where I spent a lot of time and money growing up. Nice to see they're still there even if they have moved down the road.
https://www.rockbox.co.uk/
Also the metal club where I practically lived as a teenager has just had its 60th birthday. Still got the same DJ there as it had 25 years ago when I was going.
Grant Fondo
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- Cheshire
... bit of an old thread I know but was wondering if anyone still pays for albums on iTunes? With Spotify etc being about a tenner a month for unlimited downloads surely not? I downloaded some Beatles anniversary albums the other day and noticed how much it was to 'buy' a digital version on iTunes. Assume this version gets you better quality?
Even more expensive on Qobuz .... maybe McCartney delivers it in person and gives you a quick blast of I've Got a Feeling?
Even more expensive on Qobuz .... maybe McCartney delivers it in person and gives you a quick blast of I've Got a Feeling?
DRM
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- West Yorks
Just had a look on iTunes and it is available to download, I have a subscription, so yes why would you buy it?
