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CuriousAbout7
I make the cassettes for my father. He's getting on towards a hundred years old and cassettes are easier for him to handle. As for repairing a cassette player - I do that myself. He's using a shoe box cassette player. It's a 1985 Panasonic Portable Cassette Tape Recorder RQ-2103 or something similar. Panasonic still makes this type of cassette player/recoders. They are built to last. Gears are used rather than belts in certain key functions. The current model is: Panasonic RQ2102 Cassette Recorder - it sells for $278.97 on Amazon. Since he's almost deaf, high fidelity isn't a major concern.
There are several places that provide digitized flac, mp3, ogg files of old 78 records. I have to mention George Blood LP; who provides digitized archival audio from obsolete and deteriorating records. georgeblood.com
Here is a description of a typical digitizing:
"Digitized at 78 revolutions per minute. Four stylii were used to transfer this record. They are 3.5mil truncated eliptical, 2.3mil truncated conical, 2.8mil truncated conical, 3.3mil truncated conical. These were recorded flat and then also equalized with Turnover: 500.0." The Internet Archive
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