Well, I’ve heard if you spin it backwards you can hear satanic messages
I know this is an old trope, but I always liked one bash.org quote that uses it well:
Person 1: Did you know if you play the Windows install disk backwards, it plays Satanic messages?
Person 2: That’s nothing; if you play it forwards, it installs Windows.
Vinyl religion
Audiophools are like religious folks.
7" record adapter
I actually have no recollection of why some records had the big holes in the first place. Were there players with a chonky spindle in the middle?
Yes, actually, some players had thicker spindles.
So here’s the story, at least as far as I understood it… 45s were created during a format war between Columbia records and RCA, a la betamax VS VHS, cd/dvd vs laser disc, or Blu-ray vs HD DVD. RCA’s 45s were designed to compete against Columbia’s 33s as both of them fought to create a sturdier successor to the old shellac 78 designs and bring a more reliable standard to the industry.
The larger hole was claimed to be a design feature that gave the records more stability, but really, RCA just wanted to make them incompatible with other players…
In the end, 33 LPs won. Turns out, people and musicians wanted whole albums, not just singles. Whoda thunk? However, 45s ended up being perfect for jukebox players. Plus, we got those nifty convertors, also called a spider, that ultimately made it so it didn’t matter as long as your player had a speed setting.
Fun fact, my first record player ever was actually a Fisher Price, and if you look, it’s got a built-in 45 adaptor that just popped up when you pressed it. It sounded about as good as you would expect, but I loved it.
I’m gonna go feel old now…
it so it didn’t matter as long as your player had a speed setting.
and that setting is useful for transcribing music or turning your doom vinyl into death and vice versa.
45s were commonly used in jukeboxes, where the big spindle hole was useful.
isn’t that Ubuntu?
I don’t know what these other people are talking about. It’s clearly a prototype beyblade.
The photo in the post doesn’t look like the adapter I remember. The originals didn’t have radial bars behind each spring. Only the new ones on amazon do.
The randomness was so much part of the fun!
These things were always missing so I centered by eye.
Praise St. Analog Music!
