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a spinning circle that refuses to let the past sound dead.
means A flat rotating platform — most commonly the part of a record player that spins a vinyl disc at a steady speed so a needle can read its grooves into sound.
from A plain English compound of "turn" and "table," both old Germanic-rooted words. It first named literal turning tables — the rotating railway platforms that swung whole locomotives around to face the other way — before the word settled onto the spinning disc-platform of the phonograph in the early 20th century.
- Speed code
- 33, 45, and 78 RPM are industry standards
- Tonearm physics
- tracks grooves with grams of precise pressure
- Backward birth
- scratching was invented by a teenager's accidental nudge
- Vinyl revival
- records now outsell CDs in revenue
technics sl-1200 — most widely used turntable in dj culture since 1972, standard in clubs and radio
victrola talking machine — iconic early phonograph that popularized recorded music in homes, 1901 onwards
rega p3 — british audiophile turntable launched 1983, benchmark for high-fidelity vinyl listening