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Old Floppy Drive Becomes New Turntable

Posted by timothy on from the obsessive-reuse dept.

vinyl1 writes "This must be the ultimate in retro-cool hardware hacking. The floppy drive is obsolete, but the turntable is not, and that got one guy to thinking. He provides a full tutorial on how to turn that worthless old floppy drive into a most desirable piece of audio gear."

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  1. mysterious number by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    (908) 542-3588

  2. Digital vs Analog(y) by HaydnH · · Score: -1, Troll

    In response to the various posts above re: using a lasoor, digital music & vinyl disappearing:

    Vinyl will never go away because analog sound IS better than digital. The best analogy I can think of is a digital watch vs analog watch with a smooth moving second hand. A digital watch usualy has a smallest measurement of 1/100th of a second, a smooth moving second hand has an infinitely small minimum measurement.

    However, with a watch you're unlikely to be able to actually read anything smaller than a second (or perhaps 1/2 a second) on the smooth moving second hand... but with music our ears (or at least some peoples ears) can hear a lot more from an analog source than is present in a digital copy... and no I don't mean that crackle you get on bad quality turntables/gramaphones!

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  3. Re:cool DIY project, but: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    "Everyone's a critic and most people are DJs"

    the reason that most people are DJ's is that any bloody fool can put a record on a turntable. It's hardly rocket science.

  4. Re:That would make one *terrible* turntable by smithmc · · Score: 0, Troll

      This was a home project - he did it because he wanted to, not because he needed to. Would you have preferred he watched survivor? Or that donald trump show? Maybe downloaded, so he could be spoonfed his entertainment.

    Maybe he could have turned his talents toward something that would actually be useful and beneficial to someone? Yes, spending one's time hacking hardware is better than watching illegal downloads of crappy TV shows, but there are better things one could do with one's time.

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  5. Re:DvA?? Try What we can actually hear. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I took one of those. They said I should come back in a week and not to eat poppy seed bagels until after the next test.