Anyone here into vinyl?

[bundtboy]

and with the new surround

Here's the driver back in the cabinet and with the new surround installed. Notice the rubber is concave into the cabinet and does not bulge forward and out like many other models. Another unique feature is the masonite spacer ring which was nescessary due to the unusual depth of the cone.

 

[bundtboy]

and the right channel stack

Here's how they look stacked. What I dig about this is that it really seems to activate you by your diaphram when you're standing near. Grabs you by your belly, in other words~. Kicks you in the gut, whatever...but you can really feel the wave coming out, let's put it that way.

I can't wait to crank up my mint condition Steve Miller Fly Like An Eagle 8-track through these.

Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin'

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[bundtboy]

and the very unusual tweeters too

These dudes look like none other I've seen before also. They're basically inside out looking and have an appearance that clearly declares they were made by human beings and not machines.

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[bundtboy]

fredriksam

What you're experienceing is speed control issues. I hear in both cases that the record is not centered on the spindle. It's horribly away from it's absolute center.

If you ever see the tone arm move AWAY from the spindle when a record is playing - that is incorect. Your record is crooked, and will sound Wobbly regardless of how accurate the speed of the platter. You must first assure that the playback matrix of the record is precisely and absolutely aligned to the spindle. I can talk to you more about that but let me assure you this right now - at least 9 out of 10 spindle holes are perforated in the wrong area near the center of the record and do not even allow you to achieve the abosolute center if required to fit onto a standard spindle. Many times the spindle hole may need to be enlarged in order for the playback matrix to be properly absolutely centered, or you can remove the large 45 spindle and 'nudge' the vinyl around until the tonearm seems to stand still and only movely slowly and nearly imperceivably towards the spindle - and never away.

2nd, you need to be able to visually judge if the speed of your turntable is remaining constant while under load, as while some turntables may have just enough torque to spin while not playing, as soon as the load of the pickup is added the platter can slow and drag a bit. For this you'll need to obtain a stroboscopic disc. Sounds to me like the belt or rubber idler drives in your turntable may be slipping and not providing enough drive torque either.

Hope this helps.

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[peterh770]

I need to get me a turntable and then some techical, magical wizardry to get my vinyl records recorded digitally. I have a good number of 12" dance remix records from the 80s and 90s that I would like to transfer to mp3 or to CDs.

 

[48bencix]

Yes!

Here is my 1971 Zenith with Solid State "Instant-Touch" Illuminated Stereo Control Panel. "Ultraphonic" stereo sound system with 2- 15" woofers, 2- expotential treble horns and 2- 5" tweeters. 320 watts. This model has a Garrard changer.

I had to clean one circuit board contact strip with Radio Shack contact cleaner. Also the tone arm is held in with pivot screws, one was missing, so I made one by sanding down a metric screw! The changer needed cleaning and lubrication to reject at the end of the record.

This unit has a bass emphasis, and plays quite loud. Yes I have a small Radio Shack 8-track player connected on the right.

Martin

 

[48bencix]

The front and some vinyl

The front has louvers on the speakers.

Here are some of my favorite albums, Sylvester and Lime.

I have some other players, a Technics Direct Drive Changer with Shure Ultra-Group Special Edition VST III-P cartridge, a 1950 Magnavox table top, and a Victrola for those 78's.

 

[bundtboy]

some portables

Here's some of my portable wind-up machines. There are 2 Carry-Ola's and an Orthophonic portable shown.

 

[bundtboy]

ANTIQUE RECORD CUTTER

Here's a Rek-O-kut recording lathe that looks like it's from the 1920's or 1930's. It has 2 ohms resistance on the voice coil and I hope to one day re-build this and mount it so that I can make some rare 78 transciptions for playing a few times on my Panatrope of records that I could otherwise not afford or locate easily. That project may take some time to accomplish, but at least I have this recording lathe to begin with. Now I'll need to located some cutting stylus and blank acetates too. All in good time, I'm sure.

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[tolivac]

At the agency where I worked in Wash DC they used to use Acetate blanks and Neunman and Scully disc recorders.They got replaced by cart machines-now the cart machines got replaced by mini-CD and computer audio edit-record,playb ack systems.

 

[bundtboy]

countryford - 40 to 50 turntables?

Dude - 40 to 50 turntables? Where do you sit down. I have a lot of turntables - they're in every room of the house on every floor, and I swear I don't think there's 40 or 50 here. That'a VERY high number of turntables. Do you think you could find it within your power to show us in photos what you've declared in text?

Here's another of my main workhorses - it's a JVC linear tracking turntable with quartz locked speed and top end Stanton pickup. I have made many excellent sounding vinyl to digital transcriptions using this.

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[bundtboy]

THORENS TD124

This table is legendary. I use it to transcribe 78's, as it is fitted with the green stylus Shure pickup designed for wide groove records.

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[bundtboy]

1947 PHILCO FRONT LOADING PORTABLE

This one's unique although it was very popular in it's day. To operate this player you simply open a door on one side and slip a record in through a slot - then close the door. That's it. When you open the door, the spindle retracts down, the turntable stops, and the arm resets to the beginning. When you close the door, the spindle pops up, the turntable starts spinning and the tone-arm places it self down into the first groove. At the end of playing a side there is a mercury switch which tips over and stops the turntable from spinning until you come and open the door. This is an amazingly good sounding player for those Spike Jones or Peggy Lee 78's from the 40's~. Plays 10 or 12 inch 78's only, and one at a time. The only control on the outside of the box is the on/off switch and volume control.

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[bundtboy]

Trilon 45 player

Here's a small 45 changer.

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[bundtboy]

45 changer close-up

Here's the turntable. I think that the tone-arm and spindle cap being white means that this model is later than some, and probably dates from about 1957 to 1960 or so.

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[bundtboy]

Snowball in the 1927 Columbia Viva-tonal

Here's a photo of my sweet pussy Snowball sitting inside of the top of my 1927 Columbia Viva-tonal model 810, which was the largest acoustic phonograph ever produced from Columbia. It rivals the Victor Orthophonic Credenza, but the Columbia machine is much rarer.

An interesting note on this machine is that I actually traded a Bendix Dialamatic washing machine for this phonograph.

I'll try to get an actual count of my turntables too soon. I may well have 40 or 50 also.

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[fredriksam]

Rolling stones record not centered at all

Hi, Thanks for the reply about my Rolling stones record.

I took the record to a friend that has a pionner p7 player. It took a time to get the record playing and my friend said that the middle hole was WAY out of the scale. Anyway we got the record to play and it sounded perfect. Just like it was meant to sound.

He also followed me home and checked the belt on my player. It was sligtly slipping and together with the totally un-centered record it made it sound horribly.

He made a little hole in the middle of the record and i could center it better at home than before. Bravo for friends that know how it works!!!!!!

Now i can enjoy the music as it should be enjoyed.

 

[bundtboy]

absolutely centered

That's excellent news, Frederiksam. It is true that in at least 9 out of 10 cases the spindle hole is not in the center, and requires enlarging the hole in order to properly center the recording. I know that all these years we wanted to believe that the spindle hole was in the right place and held the record at it's center, but that is simply not true.

I'm glad you were able to find your abslolute center.

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[63getelevision]

Not so perfect

Several years ago, I bought a Beatles album from Woolworth's. I believe it was their first American release, it is on Vee Jay label. I bought it about 1973 or so, it had been in their stock that long. Anyway, the hole is way off center, it really didn't sound as good as Fredriksam's record. Twist and Shout sounded like hell. I never tried to play the whole record, and I still have it. Bundtboy, your phonographs are beautiful, especially your Viva-Tonal. I am boarding two white short-hair cats at the moment, Nicholas and Noel. And an unrelated mostly white one named Snowy.

 

[bundtboy]

meet the beatles on Vee-Jay

That's a re-release. I have one too that I bought around the same time. The original one is incredibly scarce.

Now, if I show you how to determine the absolute center of your records...would you be interested? I have an invention that I hope to get patented that does just that very thing using 2 mirrors and a laser pointer. Needless to say, once you get your records absolutely centered the sound is much more life-like and natural.

I have more phonographs to show and hope to have an actual count of how many there are in my collection as of this time.

Does anyone here have a Mighty Tiny?

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