Anyone here into vinyl?

[bundtboy]

I have more if you do

I just don't wanna feel like I'm hoggin' the thread or anything. I have asked some other fellas that I know have a lot of turntables, but they are also fellas that I know are really busy.

I asked our buddy Robert who's building the fabulous new house and warehouse in Wytheville Virginia (which I have not seen yet) how many he and his friend have. I estimated that he'd have at least 10 time what I do so figured he'd have over 500 machines..but he reports to me that between the warehouse and his buddy's home collection there are over 780 machines, with over 150 of those being consoles!

This is my connection where I once traded a Bendix Dialamatic (rubber tub) washing machine for a top of the line Columbia Viva-tonal Phonograph, the model 810 that I showed Snowball sitting inside earlier in this thread.

I asked the guys please lets see a sea of consoles or a wall of portables and I suspect those photos and more are coming into our lives sometimes before we all stop breathing, but it may be a while.

Meanwhile I have more to show you and need to do photos later today. What I NEED is a new camera~. Birthdays coming up in October, and I'll be a phonograph record speed. 45.

b

 

[petek]

Hog away!! I love to see all the pics of yours and everyone elses "stuff"

 

[63getelevision]

Bundtboy, you have a lot of great stuff, don't stop showing it. I need a new camera also, I'd like to show better stuff than I've been showing, and will. Come on everybody, show us your record players!!

 

[bundtboy]

in the candy counter

I have this cool display cabinet which has lights inside if I ever restore it, but I keep some of my toy and otherwise spare phonographs inside.

 

[bundtboy]

close n play & Sansui front loader

I think a lot of us had close n plays in the early 70's, but I haven't seen too many of these Sansui front loading turntables. This machine can play both sides and also locate the individual tracks.

 

[bundtboy]

another front loader

This sharp machine can play both sides and locate the tracks also.

 

[bundtboy]

sound magazine

Here is it playing the only hit from the Partridge Faminy's Sound Magazine, I Woke Up In Love This Morning, which happens to be side 2, track number 4. No problem for the Sharp.

b

 

[bundtboy]

more candy counter babies

Here's a very cute portable, the Swingster, and also the little red Voice of music portable, which is featured in one of my youtube phonograph demonstration videos.

 

[bundtboy]

pink coronado

This one is adorable. It's a 1958 Coronado and it's in an all pink plastic cabinet, with white & gray parts. I just love this one. Inside the lid I have a black and white (shades of gray) photo of my previous laundry studio, now just a memory.

I keep a Little Golden 78 of Mighty Mouse on there for demonstration and it plays LOUD and clear. I must do a youtube video of this one soon. It's a hoot.

b

 

[selectomatic]

I prefer to listen to my vinyl Audiomatically . . .

. . . With Seeburg Audiomation!

Step into my bedroom for a moment, and take a look at one of my toys.

-kevin

 

[selectomatic]

If you open the Hand-Rubbed Walnut doors, you'll find .

. . . a control panel and 50 slots for 12" record albums.

 

[selectomatic]

Around back, in the hall closet, you can see the works.

The Seeburg Select-O-Matic Vertical Play mechanism can play any selected side of each album, or play All at the touch of a button!

 

[selectomatic]

You don't have to walk all the way down the hall to sele

Here's the Remote Selector in the library, along with the Titlestrip Booklet.

 

[selectomatic]

If you're in the Living Room,

You can dial in any album side from this convenient wall-mounted selector.

-kevin

 

[63getelevision]

Neato candy colored phonos in the candy counter! The Coronado and the front-loaders are sweet too. Have you seen the laser turntables? About $1,995.00 to $3000.00. I'll pass.

That Seeburg job is fantastic. I saw a killer Italian Provincial Seeburg console on their site, bet that thing takes six men to move it in.

 

[selectomatic]

Seeburg Home Stereo Consoles

The Seeburg HSC-1 console with speakers and amplifier, etc. weighs in at around 350#. It's 6 feet long. It sold for around $1300 in 1967. That's in the days of real money.

The AP-1 shown in the pictures is much smaller. They fit into a 1993 Lincoln Town Car's trunk. Just.

-kevin

 

[63getelevision]

The premiere Magnavox Collector (in Georgia) owns a premium late '60s console with everything but TV, that he said weighs 350#. He was featured on Rachael Boesing's "Hey,Remember?" on HGTV. That show had a short run.

 

[bundtboy]

seeburg wall unit

I never saw such a thing in my life. LOVE it!
That is OUT-rageous. I'm guessing that must be pretty rare.

I could see that all full of my Ray Conniff & Lenny Dee Lp's. It'd just about hold 'em. I think I could fill it full of Peggy Lee Lp's as well.

These days I could fill it with Wurlitzer pipe organ recordings. No, I don't really dig E. Power Biggs much. I prefer theater organ to classical style.

How does it sound? Do you have control over the speed via an electonic speed control unit like in seeburg jukeboxes?

It's very, very cool. I'd love to see & hear it some time.

B

 

[frigilux]

I've never seen a Seeburg wall unit, either. That's amazing, with its little dial-up selectors. Cool!

Great seeing all these turntables, guys! Wish I had something of interest to show. My last two turntables were a Harmon-Karden (sp?) (had that through most of the '80s) followd by a Bang & Olufsen, which fell off a stack of equipment and was destroyed when I moved to my house five years ago. Since then, I've been using a borrowed a cheap-ass linear-tracking BSR which I found in a closet at work. Don't play vinyl much, anymore. Usually just to record to CD, then to iPod. It's fun to listen to an iPod and hear vinyl sounds---pops, clicks, scratches.

In the 70's I had a Pioneer PL-71 and a Philips (don't recall the model), among others. Had a Dual for awhile, too, and one that stood vertically, but don't recall the brand. Only had it for a few months before I traded up to the H-K.

 

[frigilux]

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.

 

[frigilux]

And here's the inside.

 

[selectomatic]

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

http://home.pacbell.net/fmillera/home_units.htm

 

[48bencix]

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

 

[bundtboy]

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.

b

 

[bundtboy]

pilot light on

Here's the 1926 Panatrope shown for the first time with lights on both behind the red pilot lamp and also inside the phonograph area.

 

[63getelevision]

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.

 

[jasonl]

Close n play

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?

 

[petek]

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.

 

[bundtboy]

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.

b

 

[63getelevision]

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.