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Car on turntable in Louisville, Colorado. Car on turntable in Palm Beach, Florida. A car turntable in Sudbury, Suffolk UK. Designed and made by David Le Versha. A car turntable or driveway turntable is a rotating platform designed for use by a car; they can be motorized or manually rotated and are usually installed in a driveway or in a garage ...
Twin turntables were illustrated in the BBC Handbook in 1929, and were advertised for sale in Gramophone magazine in 1931. [3] There was an obvious need for such a setup when the normal music format was 78rpm records that played for five minutes at most and a classical symphony came in a box which might contain ten discs or more.
In 1969, Matsushita released it as the SP-10, [5] the first direct-drive turntable on the market, [6] and the first in their influential Technics series of turntables. [ 5 ] In the 1970s, hip hop musicians and club DJs began to use this specialized turntable equipment to move the record back and forth, creating percussive sounds and effects ...
Early belt-drive turntables were unsuitable for turntablism and mixing, since they had a slow start-up time, and they were prone to wear-and-tear and breakage, as the belt would break from backspinning or scratching. [67] The first direct-drive turntable was invented by engineer Shuichi Obata at Matsushita (now Panasonic), [68] based in Osaka ...
It supplied turntables and autochangers to many of the world’s record player manufacturers, eventually gaining 87% of the market. The company also manufactured their own brand of player, the Monarch automatic record changer, which could select and play 7", 10" and 12" records at 16, 33 1 ⁄ 3 , 45 or 78 rpm, automatically intermixing ...
Early belt-drive turntables were unsuitable for turntablism, since they had a slow start-up time, and they were prone to wear-and-tear and breakage, as the belt would break from backspin or scratching. [127] The first direct-drive turntable was invented by Shuichi Obata, an engineer at Matsushita (now Panasonic), [128] based in Osaka, Japan.
Garrard 401 turntable with SME 3009 tonearm. The Garrard 301 Transcription Turntable was the first transcription turntable that supported all extant commercial playback formats – the 33, 45 and 78 rpm records of the time. The first model was the Garrard 301.
In a direct-drive turntable the motor is located directly under the center of the platter and is connected to the platter directly. It is a significant advancement over older belt-drive turntables for turntablism, since they have a slower start-up time and torque, and are prone to wear-and-tear and breakage, [5] as the belt would break from backspinning or scratching. [6]