Turn your turntable into a tape machine! (1952)

From the pages of AUDIO ENGINEERING, ’52: the Presto TL-10.

Next in this series: Turn your tape machine into a CD Player! Followed by… oh shit then it’s the end of physical recorded music media.

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Bafflegab says:

07/17/2012 at 11:59 pm

These actually worked halfway decent for quarter inch full track tape. Provided the station engineers could wire them correctly, and provided the tape reels the station used would fit and mount. But they were playback only.

And they required a big table, which in the pre AOR days was as scarce as a tape machine. Airplay was off the heavy-arm 45 rpm singles tables made for in-desk mounting. When AOR came out, Japanese direct drive consumer tables became the standard.

That's the way I remember it anyway. YMMV.
Rory O'Meara says:

03/28/2016 at 3:46 am

I have a set of 20 Speak-O-Phone aluminium records coated in a black material. They are dated 1952 and the typed lables state they were used to record speaches and song at a banquet in New York for the retirement of a named priest. The name of the person who made the recordings is also given. This person was a larger than life character whose life is well documented by Google.
Can anyone advise on the preservation of the records and the downloading of the recorded sound?
I live in Dublin, Ireland and the records were brought to Ireland by the retired priest who died in 1963.
Thank you,

Rory.