The Pass Pub: The High-End Off Topic Thread

”Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 are successive, advanced iterations of the original Web 1.0 of the 1990s and early 2000s.”

”Defining features of Web 3.0 include decentralization; trustlessness and permissionlessness; artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning; and connectivity and ubiquity.”

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It recently dawned on me that 33+45=78. :clown:

Is this coincidence and numerology, or is there some reason that the record RPMs are intertwined? I know the historical progression from 78 to 33 to 45, but is the relationship linked to something like small electric motor manufacturing? Yet another Tesla vs. Edison battle? :Popworm:
 
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There is a good explanation of how the speeds came about here: https://www.aes-media.org/historical/html/recording.technology.history/speeds.html

Apparently, the 33 rpm speed came about due to the needs of the movie industry at that time. Records were used to provide the sound tracks of films and 33 1/3 rpm combined with the disc diameter provided the enough play time for a reel of film at decent sound quality.

The 45 rpm records came about because the record companies wanted 5-1/2-minutes of playtime using 7-inch diameter disks to provide good quality sound. The math for that worked out to 45 rpm.
 
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Intuition suggests that ease of implementation with either 50 Hz or 60 Hz mains power, might have been an important consideration.

The AES-media.org article linked in #28,767 says :
... it turned out to be 78.2608 r/min because it was necessary to synchronize the recording turntable to the 60-hertz ...
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What would be a convenient speed approximately one-half of 78 that could be easily locked to the 60-hertz line? The answer was 33-1/3
 
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Here you go Gyuri... she is so great, thanks for sharing the link from the new CD earlier - now I have 4 Jarosz-CDs :cheers:

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