[Vintage-Audio] Re Record Changer Speeds

[Tim Keener]

>> >         331/3 transcriptions go back to the
>> 1930's.  Microgroove (LP) 
>> > records appeared in both 331?3 and 45 RPM shortly
>> after the end of WWII, 
>> > say about 1948 or 1949. 16 2/3 appeared as a
>> selling feature shortly 
>> > after. (A FOUR speed record changer!), but I don't
>> recall ever seeing a 
>> > disk.
>> >
>> > Best I can do from memory.
>> >
>> >         Charlie Fox

I remember the 16 2/3 rpm records and saw a few during my teen years.  They were the talking book records with voice content only.  They played a looong time on a side.  Production of these microgroove discs were for the blind, the illiterate, and those too lazy to read for themselves.

I have enjoyed the many threads on this reflector and the old memories they have reawakened.  Keep it up!

Tim Keener N3VGS