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Dai Corner · 11th Nov 2017, 1:09 am

I was having a discussion about gramophone records earlier and somebody asked when 16 2/3 rpm records became obsolete.

Obviously there isn't a simple answer to this but does anywhere know when they stopped being made and when turntables that could play them stopped being produced? Was their demise due to the rise of the cassette tape?

11th Nov 2017, 1:09 am	#1
Dai Corner Hexode Join Date: Oct 2016 Location: Newport, South Wales, UK. Posts: 278	When Did 16 2/3 rpm Records Become Obsolete? I was having a discussion about gramophone records earlier and somebody asked when 16 2/3 rpm records became obsolete. Obviously there isn't a simple answer to this but does anywhere know when they stopped being made and when turntables that could play them stopped being produced? Was their demise due to the rise of the cassette tape?