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Physical Media Is Dead, Long Live Physical Media (hackaday.com)
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[โ€“] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Some time ago, the industry seemed to have standardized on a cheap-ass all in one platter/motor/stylus assembly that's just dropped into every modern record player now. I think I started seeing that thing everywhere in the late 80s. They did the same to tape players. It's now just an entire chassis containing the play head, motor, etc where they just make a shell to go around it and a circuit board to drive it/amplify it.

[โ€“] FireWire400@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Yep, that same old BSR mechanism that was invented in the mid-80s. Decent casette players use Tanashin mechanisms (or clones rather since Tanashin itself doesn't make them anymore AFAIK) and as long as they have metal flywheels and proper erase heads they're ok.

Forget about 3-Head Closed Loop Dual Capstan, though, you're never gonna find that on a modern deck.