Tech Legacy - Turntables (Part 5)
The phonograph gave rise to the turntable, a remarkable device capable of bringing the joy of music into households across the world!
Record players are still in use in DJ booths, recording studios, and radio stations all over the world.
A direct-drive turntable is one of the three main phonograph designs currently being produced. The other styles are the belt-drive turntable and the idler-wheel type. Each name is based upon the type of coupling used between the platter of the turntable and the motor.
Direct-drive turntables are currently the most popular phonographs, due to their widespread use for turntablism in DJ culture.[1][2] Panasonic's Technics series were the first direct-drive turntables,[3][4] and remain the most popular series of turntables.[1][2]
This is a technology we still use today to a certain extent although many DJs are using digital files in conjunction with turntables to spin tunes in nightclubs.
Some technologies have proven they can stand the test of time!
Source:
Wikipedia
It is very good
My gran used to have a old LP player at her house and when she would go to the store we would put on a record and scratch the hell out of it pretending to be a DJ, ah good times!
Record players are having a renaissance. I see so many young people who are getting into collecting LPs.