Comments by "Keit Hammleter" (@keithammleter3824) on "" video.

  1. "Distortion free" they said, about 100 times. Then, a few years later, RCA invented the Dynagroove pre-correction to get rid of some of the distortion. Then the Japanese devised elliptical styli to get rid of some more. Then the Brits devised linear tracking tone-arms to get rid of the distortion still remaining. The presenter forgot to mention that the plastic used in 45's was a lot more susceptible to warping than the old shellac 78's. I had to laugh when the 45 he demonstrated was already warped. Big holes and separate players didn't last long - ideas that must have seemed daft even during development.
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  2.  @perrybarton  : Yes, like Lear 8-track tapes, S-100/CP/M computers, and non-metric measurements - only in the USA. Actually, didn't they eventually come up with a design for 45's that had a three-pointed knock-out section, so that you could play on a regular 9/32" spindle turntable, or knock it out and play it on a large spindle turntable?
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  3.  @WestCoastDP  : Certainly 45 RPM singles were very successful - from introduction, up until the introduction of CD's in the 1980's. I bought 45's myself when In was a teenager in the early 60's. But I've only ever seen them with the small hole the same as 33-1/3 LP's. I'm in Australia - perhaps we never bothered with the large hole version and just went straight from 78 RPM singles to 45 RPM singles with small holes. Incidentally, when you bought a 45, you usually got 2 good songs. When I was a teenager 45's cost $1 - 50 cents a song. An LP cost about $5 and you got 8 or 9 songs. You might think 45's were not good value, but many of the songs on most LP's were third rate, or covers of other artiste's songs, so you only really got about $2 worth. Juke boxes had very good sound, but were expensive - as I recall, 10 cents each song play. If you took a girlfriend to a JD's (hamburger place) or to a milk bar, and there weren't many other customers free with their coins, you could go broke pretty quickly - about 30 cents for the milkshakes, another 40 cents or so for food, and up to $2 for the jukebox. A lot of money for a teenager back then - would take me days of part time work to earn it. Just to get a shine in your girl's eyes for an hour.
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