Oh, what the hell. Here's the BSR I've appropriated from work. It has a feature that supposedly lets you choose the tracks you want played, but I've never found it useful or very accurate, for that matter.
Anyone here into vinyl?
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Seeburg Home Stereos
I posted this link in another thread, but here it is again.
The AP-1 in my wall was actually intended to be a free-standing unit, but I didn't have anywhere to put it. Besides, the cabinet was pretty badly scratched.
I just happened to have a place on my bedroom wall that backed up with a hall closet that turned out to be about an inch wider than the machine. A few hours with a Sawzall and some spare lumber later, and it was in.
The motor is synchronized to the power line, so you don't have a speed control. That was only used in machines that needed to be able to play two different speeds.
Because it holds 50 albums which each have 2 sides, you can select any album side by dialing in a two-digit number.
The machines were made between 1967 and sometime in the early '70s. They were very expensive, and are fairly uncommon.
Seeburg made several modifications to the mechanism to improve record handling and sound quality, and these machines have fairly impressive specifications. Underneath it all, there's the same basic mechanism that was used in Seeburg's coin-operated machines from 1949-1984.
-kevin
I posted this link in another thread, but here it is again.
The AP-1 in my wall was actually intended to be a free-standing unit, but I didn't have anywhere to put it. Besides, the cabinet was pretty badly scratched.
I just happened to have a place on my bedroom wall that backed up with a hall closet that turned out to be about an inch wider than the machine. A few hours with a Sawzall and some spare lumber later, and it was in.
The motor is synchronized to the power line, so you don't have a speed control. That was only used in machines that needed to be able to play two different speeds.
Because it holds 50 albums which each have 2 sides, you can select any album side by dialing in a two-digit number.
The machines were made between 1967 and sometime in the early '70s. They were very expensive, and are fairly uncommon.
Seeburg made several modifications to the mechanism to improve record handling and sound quality, and these machines have fairly impressive specifications. Underneath it all, there's the same basic mechanism that was used in Seeburg's coin-operated machines from 1949-1984.
-kevin
Very nice installation
I remember the Selectomatic home units. Occassionally there is one on E-Bay. I love the way you have it set up in the wall.
Martin
I remember the Selectomatic home units. Occassionally there is one on E-Bay. I love the way you have it set up in the wall.
Martin
3 consoles in a row
60's, 50's, and 20's.
By FAR, the most accurate and therefore most listenable phonograph is the 1926 Brunswick Panatrope.
The table speed is adjustable and holds pitch wonderfully with excellent torque. The pickup is magnetic, and also the sound is additionally sent through a Pioneer subwoofer radically extending the frequency response. Antique pipe organ records sounds magnificent through the Panatrope.
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60's, 50's, and 20's.
By FAR, the most accurate and therefore most listenable phonograph is the 1926 Brunswick Panatrope.
The table speed is adjustable and holds pitch wonderfully with excellent torque. The pickup is magnetic, and also the sound is additionally sent through a Pioneer subwoofer radically extending the frequency response. Antique pipe organ records sounds magnificent through the Panatrope.
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Bundtboy, is the GE "Larchmont" a tabletop unit, or the top of the console under it? GE made units that reminded me of buffets with china cabinets on top. The bottoms had record storage and speakers.
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I had one when I was a kid. The ONLY child's phonograph with a pitch control.
Bob, have you ever gotten that one to work?
I had one when I was a kid. The ONLY child's phonograph with a pitch control.
Bob, have you ever gotten that one to work?
Those are all some excellent items. I have only my original 70's JVC quartz lock TT bought new and this pictured Zenith I bought at a thrift sometime early last year. I bought it because I was sort of impressed by the feel and quality for a Zenith who haven't put out much good in years. Anyways, turns out it's made in Japan so that answers that.. LOL
I did have a Hitachi linear TT as well but I sold that on Ebay for not bad scheckels.
I did have a Hitachi linear TT as well but I sold that on Ebay for not bad scheckels.
quartz locked zenith
NICE table Pete. That'll be a very good sounding player. It looks like a re-badged Technics to me. Quartz locked platters are always nice. That's not an extremely high compliance arm but it should work fine if it's set up right. Cool piece.
I dug your motorcycle in the other thread too. You do look happy on that.
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NICE table Pete. That'll be a very good sounding player. It looks like a re-badged Technics to me. Quartz locked platters are always nice. That's not an extremely high compliance arm but it should work fine if it's set up right. Cool piece.
I dug your motorcycle in the other thread too. You do look happy on that.
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I have a Technics direct drive that I paid $5.00 for a few years ago, from Goodwill, and $20.00 for a direct drive linear programmable turntable I think it is a Cabrini or something. I can't put my hands on them at the moment. The Cabrini needs a new stylus.
I received a few Technics DD TT's from a radio station a few years ago as part payment of work I did for them-beleive they are SL-25.They switched over to all digital music storage and playback-they didn't want the TT's anymore.kinda sad.the '25's were another popular TT used in radio stations.They could take most DJ abuse except when Coke is spilled into one-Platter would jitter instead of rotate-TT for "scracthin"?Rinsed off the circuit boards-let them dry and the TT was fine.
I finally got to taking some pictures of my record players. I have a Thorens TD 318. I bought it in 1987. Used it quite a lot, even after I bought a CD player. But lately it has been collecting dust mostly.
I also have a Garrard record player from the fifties or perhaps early sixties. It belonged to an aunt of my grandmother from mother's side. I think she rarely used it. It's a mono record player with built in amplifier and speaker.
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Fabulous Turntables
The Garrard portable is a treat! I need a Garrard for my 1957 Fisher receiver and Stromberg-Carlson speaker. Here's something I dug out after checking out BOB'S videos, and got turned on. These people may be on vinyl, they're certainly wearing enough of it!
The Garrard portable is a treat! I need a Garrard for my 1957 Fisher receiver and Stromberg-Carlson speaker. Here's something I dug out after checking out BOB'S videos, and got turned on. These people may be on vinyl, they're certainly wearing enough of it!
Oh, my God, I used to LOVE The Cramps. Saw them back in the early '80s. Psychobilly, I think it was called. That they had no bass player back then made their already unsettled music seem even more seasick 'n' sleazy.
I haven't heard the linked tune before----probably their newer stuff; More listener-friendly, that's for sure. Thanks for a blast from the past, Alan.
I haven't heard the linked tune before----probably their newer stuff; More listener-friendly, that's for sure. Thanks for a blast from the past, Alan.
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I think the album is called "Flame Job", I bought it brand new on a cassette after I saw them on "Beavis and Butthead". I saw Bundtboy doing the twist on one of his record player videos and got inspired. I have one other album on a CD. Glad you enjoyed it!
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Come on, 63getelevision, you'd commit unspeakable acts a
This looks like it's just a radio with a large remote speaker.
Wasn't there a similar set-up where the end-table just had a faceplate with controls, and it was connected with wires and speedometer cable to the actual electronics which were housed in the speaker cabinet? Maybe I'm hallucinating.
Anyway, I remember seeing an end-table with a radio (and maybe a record changer in it) without the associated speaker cabinet in a local "antique" store a year or two ago.
-kevin
This looks like it's just a radio with a large remote speaker.
Wasn't there a similar set-up where the end-table just had a faceplate with controls, and it was connected with wires and speedometer cable to the actual electronics which were housed in the speaker cabinet? Maybe I'm hallucinating.
Anyway, I remember seeing an end-table with a radio (and maybe a record changer in it) without the associated speaker cabinet in a local "antique" store a year or two ago.
-kevin
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Yes, you know me too well. This Magnavox is monaural, with a record changer in the end table radio unit, and a multi speaker setup in the big cabinet. You could connect the "table" to a television with large speakers, too.
