How to pick a stylus to play a 78-rpm record (www.vjm.biz)

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Insights into the kind of crap 78-rpm records were made of, and other scarce technical infos.

If you're not sure what 'a record' is, or haven't ever seen one, you're excused.

Oh, and by-the-way, 78 is the approximate number you get when you rotate a 46-tooth gear with a 3600 rpm motor. (60 cycles per second.)

Further wisdom such as this is found by the ton here: http://www.78rpmrecord.com/links.htm

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[-] user1234@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 11 months ago

I always thought it would be neat to use a laser or high resolution scanner to image a record have a computer analyze it and convert the images to audio. Not sure if this has been done, but if not it would be cool to figure out.

[-] linuxguy@lemmy.gregw.us 3 points 11 months ago

It has been done! https://ofersp.github.io/digital_needle/

[-] user1234@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 11 months ago

Nice!

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