Many guess that it's some type of religious symbol

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• daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨51⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  7" record adapter

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• Weirdfish@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Well, I’ve heard if you spin it backwards you can hear satanic messages

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• DisgruntledPelican@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Vinyl religion

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  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Audiophools are like religious folks.

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• notreallyhere@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  isn’t that Ubuntu?

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• gedaliyah@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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?

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  • capt_wolf@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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 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… It sounded about as good as you would expect, but I loved it. And if you look, it’s got a built-in 45 adaptor that just popped up when you pressed it.

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  • Davel23@fedia.io ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Some record players came with an adapter you could fit over the center peg which was sized to fit 45s. As for why the holes were so big, I think it had something to do with jukebox mechanisms, since that was what they were commonly found in.

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  • Vespair@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yes, 45 RPM players had wider pegs and smaller plates and were designed for playing 7" 45 RPM singles. The adapter allows a 7" 45 with the wider peg to be played on a standard size LP plate, assuming the player had a 45 RPM play speed setting (most players eventually included 33/45/78 speed; from what I understand it’s really only the very oldest or specialty players that didn’t).

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    • adarza@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      i had the spindle adapter to put on a stack of 45s, and also a simple disc that fit down it and just allowed one to sit on the turntable at a time. i didnt’ need to use these snap-in adapters.

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    • FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    45s were commonly used in jukeboxes, where the big spindle hole was useful.

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• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Praise St. Analog Music!

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• Renorc@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This doesn’t look like the ones I remember. The originals didn’t have radial bars behind each spring. Only the new ones on amazing do.

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  • Davel23@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The ones I had had the bars. Made them a real pain in the ass to get into place, too.

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• Jerb322@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The randomness was so much part of the fun!

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• BannedVoice@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I have to stick a pencil through mine to resize them to fit.

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• Onyxonblack@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Looks like the Ark from Anno 2070

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