![]() ![]() There was a crank on the right side where you could wind up the spring that drove the turntable (covered in green felt). The lower doors covered a cabinet where you could store all your fragile bakelite 78's. Open the doors and reveal where the sound comes out. The thing was purely mechanical and acoustic - nothing electrical anywhere. The small upper doors on the front acted as a 'volume control'. Open the lid and prop it up with the built-in stand. (We were fooling around with ours in the late '50s, early '60s - a genuine RCA Victor 'Victrola'.) It wasn't all of them, the majority worked just fine, but something like 1 in 5 that I tried no longer played. But the last time I tried to play some of them (before I got rid of them all) a significant number had become unplayable. I had a huge collection of CD's myself, I worked in a record store for some years. They still play just fine, when I fire up the old Phillips or Magnavox player. I've got a huge collection of CDs, many are from the 80's. I certainly agree that making digital lossless copies should be encouraged, because of the potential damage from handling and scratches on the disc's surface. The Library of Congress did a study with their collection and estimates a mean lifespan of 776 years. Some discs won't last, but most will last for a century or more. The only way to preserve something is to keep lossless copying it around to new formats.ĬDs made in one factory in England had early problems with "CD rot", and storing CDs improperly (like a hot humid car interior) won't do them any favors, but you vastly underestimate their longevity. But even the best made consumer CDs and DVDs have a lifespan of 25-35 years. ![]() Kraftwerk Orange: wildcardjack: Early CDs weren't coated properly, so they've already soured and in some cases turned clear. ![]()
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