1959 LaFayette Stereophonic

[bobofhollywood]

This came free with the Maytag AMP.

 

[bobofhollywood]

whole set

It's a kit you'd buy that came with only naked electronics, and you'd have built the entire cabinet in which to house the units, including the speaker drivers.

 

[bobofhollywood]

one of the speakers, snowball approved

The kitty even loves the way these speakers sound. They really sing from their belly.

 

[maytagbear]

I would imagine that most cats

would rather chase the tweeters, instead of being chased by the woofers.

Bob, Snowball is a gorgeous gal, and the Lafayette is attractive, too.

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[frontaloadotmy]

So The Tuner is an add on?

And the panel on the left is for the changer?
And Snowball looks like a delightful Kitty and is waiting for you to play the soundtrack of "Cats"

 

[jasonl]

Yeah, and The Cat's In The Cradle, Honky Cat (that she is lol), Blues Suede Shoes (Go cat go), and that Tom Jones song "What's new...".

 

[wmlask]

Movin

I see the Kay Starr "Movin" LP on Capitol in the background. What a great/fun album.

 

[kevinpreston8]

My head is spinning Bob...

Ok I am trying to get my mind around what you have there.

Maybe it's late and I am not seeing it right, or it's an optical illusion. But the turntable appears to me as if it rises out of the left side and maybe retracts when you are done with it. Or is it a seperate piece that you laid on top of it?

When you speak of it being a kit, are you talking about that vintage unit or what appears to be a speaker off to the right? Or is that NOT a speaker and the speaker you are referring to as a kit is the one that Snowball is on? I feel like I came in at the end of a convo and I am missing something.

I love the control panel, those knobs look like the style of the old Curtis Mathes/Voice of Music type, would love to see a close up of that panel.

 

[jasonl]

I wonder if the guy who owned it actually built the wooden parts or bought it and put it together.

Bob, got any rock n roll? Let's crank some Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis.

 

[bobofhollywood]

Stereo-hi-phonic, actually

Without having to make it up myself, this particular unit is actually called Stereo-hi-phonic.

I really believe that the cabinets were all built by hand from raw wood material - stick built.

The Garrard changer is just sitting atop the unit currently, but I'd love to make it a 'flight deck' type of rising turntable, like certain ADMIRAL consoles had in the 1960's. Does anybody here know what kind of hardware I'd need to use in order to accomplish that rising deck action?

 

[bobofhollywood]

garrard on top

Here's the changer again.

I'm pretty sure the tuner was all part of the same kit sold by LaFayette, and intended to be a set-top device from the beginning.

The cabinet itself is not great work of cabinet artistry, and I was intending to add a rope light and some mirrors, but if I could make the changer rise out of the cabinet when the lid rises up - that'd really be custom deluxe~!

 

[toggleswitch]

WOW

My father and mother had those very same components in a custom made entertainment center/bar.

 

[bobofhollywood]

Gates close-up

I also play the Gates turntable through the LaFayette system.
Here's a close-up of Little Jack Little on the rare red and yellow Montgomery Wards label from the depression era - 1933.