fonografmaniac
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yall maggie lovers is not going to like this
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fonografmaniac
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oh yeah!
here's another one of that same unit with a darker-colored cabinet, but with the original collaro changer.
here's another one of that same unit with a darker-colored cabinet, but with the original collaro changer.
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Liberachi would have said this unit was too gaudy for his Las Vegas home. However, very collectable in it's ghastly ostentation of a period of time when stereo music and LP's were the rage.
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It's always best for the seller to have some understanding of what they are auctioning.
From the RCA Console Auction:
From the same actions questions:
My listed items are obtained through either consignments or local estate auctions. .I do not cleanup any of my items I try to describe as fair as possible.
Maybe if he took some time to at least run a dust rag out of some of his items he might get a higher price!
According to the seller, this unit plays the following speeds:
A: Hi the speeds on the turntable are 12, 10, and 7, the records it can take are 33, 45 and 78
I strongly suspect that this seller has never seen a turntable, or in this case "a record player" and wouldn't have a clue about how to use one!
From the RCA Console Auction:
From the same actions questions:
My listed items are obtained through either consignments or local estate auctions. .I do not cleanup any of my items I try to describe as fair as possible.
Maybe if he took some time to at least run a dust rag out of some of his items he might get a higher price!
According to the seller, this unit plays the following speeds:
A: Hi the speeds on the turntable are 12, 10, and 7, the records it can take are 33, 45 and 78
I strongly suspect that this seller has never seen a turntable, or in this case "a record player" and wouldn't have a clue about how to use one!
Repair kits
The pix shown are really bad conversions...
However, I do remember in about 1981,2,3,4 etc, Magnavox did offer a replacement changer "kit" which consisted of a BSR or BSR-LIKE changer and a mounting board. Since the Collaro changers were dying, people were getting their fancy console units fixed with this kit.
The kit sold well. I remember a bunch of Magnavox getting these kits. You could throw the kit into anything and I remember at least one Admiral getting a new changer. I also remember the stereo tech being rather lazy and preferred to drop in a changer rather than repairing it. Not-so-surprisingly, Zenith and VM changers always got fixed and never needed a new changer. Not that VM changers were better (Collaros were very well made as we all know) - it's that Collaro parts (and Admiral-made changer parts) were getting scarce at that point.... any some techs were getting really lazy at that point. IMHO
The pix shown are really bad conversions...
However, I do remember in about 1981,2,3,4 etc, Magnavox did offer a replacement changer "kit" which consisted of a BSR or BSR-LIKE changer and a mounting board. Since the Collaro changers were dying, people were getting their fancy console units fixed with this kit.
The kit sold well. I remember a bunch of Magnavox getting these kits. You could throw the kit into anything and I remember at least one Admiral getting a new changer. I also remember the stereo tech being rather lazy and preferred to drop in a changer rather than repairing it. Not-so-surprisingly, Zenith and VM changers always got fixed and never needed a new changer. Not that VM changers were better (Collaros were very well made as we all know) - it's that Collaro parts (and Admiral-made changer parts) were getting scarce at that point.... any some techs were getting really lazy at that point. IMHO
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paulg, i think i have an idea what you talking about. i remember seeing on ebay a 1968 truetone stereo console. the original changer was replaced in 1989 with a consumer electronics one. i think that changer was made by matsushita ( panasonic ). matsushita changers look like bsrs, but there're not.
I remember REPAIRING the orig Collaro TT in my Moms Maganavox-no plastic BSR TT's for hers!the sight of those bojack plastic BSR TT's in those consoles being sold on EBAY is disgusting.You will have to look on EBAY or somewhere elese for an original TT.Sadly my Mom got rid of her Maggie when she bought a new component system.now she wished she kept her Maggie.I was glad to keep it going.Rewarded me and her with its nice sound!A CD player hooked into its aux inputs sounded fabulous!enjoyed playing my Cd's when I came to visit.I was also able to play cassettes thru it with my Sony walkman cassette player.Played it into the aux input like the CD player.Those cassettes never sounded better unless I played them thru my system at home.
It's blasphemy is what it is!
also with those bojack TT's the performance of the console is going to be comprimised as well.Bet that plastic BSR Rumbles like a train!Shame on the idiots that offer the BSR as a replacement.
pturo
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I'll bet Diana Ross and the Tempations does not sound the same on some bastardised stero of the era.
