Your listening space

[anthony]

recordplayer graveyard

this is my attic some of the brands you see hear are BUSH FERGUSON DANSETTE REGENTONE which probably dont mean much to you guys in the states but these were everyday brands here in the last century

 

[paulg]

Gorgeous pieces Anthony

Most definitely!

 

[anthony]

another

theres a fiew reel to reel taperecorders in there somewhere the BUSH radio [still in its box ]has never been used and is already 10 years old theres also a PIONEER amp stood on its end just in front of the bookcase

 

[anthony]

this

is a HACKER gondolier recordplayer from 1969 these are highly regarded over here and sell for huge amounts of money it has a push pull valve amp and a massive speaker that almost fills the front grill it can knock out 8 watts when turned up full with no distortion at all .I have 2 of these theres another hiding behind it

 

[anthony]

another

lids up

 

[anthony]

this

is probably the youngest bit of kit in the house and even this is from the 90s it has a fantastic sound and everything still works the speakers are bi wired and the bass is unbeleivable panasonic really new what they were doing when they designed this its only fault is it has no line in but i am going to fit one then my daughter can put her ipod through it beleive me guys you would not get far with this on your shoulder it weighs a ton . Hope i havent bored everyone with all of this

 

[suckolux]

cool stuff

 

[1926700]

Anthony.......

Do you happen to have a Dansette Bermuda? I love the look of those, i wish he had those in the U.S.

 

[davetranter]

Anthony...

... Are you a serious collector of turntables / record players?? If you are, and you ever pass through the Stoke-on-Trent area, I may have a few things of interest to you.

A separate question... Do you have any semi- or professional tape machines in your collection?? Ferrograph, Revox, Leevers-Rich, Studer, etc??

All best

Dave T

 

[anthony]

hi guys

i only have 1 dansette in my colection they may look atractive and cool but they were on the whole very basic machines with a basic sound quality to match i know they are extremely popular at the moment but i dont care for them much any of there counterparts BUSH FERGUSON MURPHY HMV ect are much better machines having said that because Dansettes have very little inside them they are relativly easy to repair but be warned these machines are quite old now and will have worn out parts [capacitors ]that can make them extremely dangerous

 

[anthony]

hello dave

no i dont have any quality taperecorders just 2 Fidelity eforts and an Elizabethan as you probably know they are not good i only keep them for sentimental reasons i am not a serious collector i just enjoy fixing these things once repaired i loose interest

 

[1926700]

Anthony.......

I see, I know they used the BSR changers, but I don't know much more then that. I just like the look of the Bermuda, and since the voltages are different here so there for we never had the Dansette here in the U.S. Here the best of that time era Were GE, Magnovox, Zenith, Motorola. There were others too, but i find that they aren't quite as good as those mentioned...

 

[jmurray01]

I think short of having an attic full of vacuum cleaners I couldn't think of anything better than having an attic full of record players as you do Anthony!

Since my original post on this thread I HAVE upgraded though from my cheap Goodmans to a 1993 Kenwood stacking Hifi which has a 7-Disc CD changer, twin-cassette deck with Auto-Reverse and a tuner. The only thing missing is a turntable put I am in the process of procuring one of those (though not a Kenwood model, unfortunately).

I am playing a Roy Orbison CD on it just now and although it is not a record by any means, it sounds amazing on those big 8 Ohms speakers the Kenwood has.

I shall take a picture of it tomorrow (it is dark now and my camera doesn't like artificial light) and post on here.

I managed to get it for only £10 and I still cannot believe my luck. The previous owner just had it laying around unused for years and all it needed was a new set of speaker cables and some oil on the Laser carriage wheels to bring it back to full working order. Considering those systems were over £1,000 new back in the early to mid 1990s I consider myself very lucky indeed.

 

[anthony]

hi 1926700

the Dansette machines were all quite good looking with there bright colours and the BSR autochangers were standard in these type of machines all over the world as far as i know although they dont rate very high in the HI FI world some people prefer Garrard but if you take a close look at them they are not that diffrent .I have seen some of your american box type recordplayers of the same era they arnt much diffrent to ours however some of your Radiograms [consoles as you call them ]are amazing and quite gorgeous would love to have one its rather like comparing our cars [when we used to make them]with yours

 

[jmurray01]

Here is a picture of my Kenwood I mentioned previously.

I am awaiting the delivery of an Aiwa turntable then it will truly be complete.

 

[electroluxxxx]

Jmurray

Kenwood was never a bad unit, always seemed to last a long time and always good for the money spent, I really like the displays on your components there!

now I have never been one for changers and consoles but turntables I do love, nothing like the crisp sound of a vinyl album. I seem to love the sound of a tube amp with the right set of speakers, Klipsch cornwall speakers come to mind I have heard these paired with a Magnavox 40 watt tube amp and oh my did the room come to life!!!! perfect bass response and the mids and highs so warm. seeing that I sold my last tube amp for little to nothing I use what I have always used, Analog technology... Granted my rotel receiver is digital but it has an analog setting which is just as good as my analog pioneer. Powerful response in anyway shape and form. is anyone interested in reel to reel?

 

[1926700]

Anthony.......

We did have BSR changers here, Westinghouse for example, I know used the exact Dansette Changer but for the American market. The Garrard was also used here in portables around 1965, I have a Sylvania Portable with a Garrard. But in the 50's and early 60's there was a company called Voice of Music that had a HUGE chunk of the market for portable automatic record players. That's whats used in my 1962 GE that is in my living room....and not to mention VM was not only a out source corp for other companies, but VM was also a name brand in them selves..I like BSR ok, but there's one cool thing abut the VM, one could intermix 10inch and 12 inch records in a stack. The mechanism was designed so there was a feeler on the base right next to the platter to feel for a 10inch, and another feeler that a 12 inch would grazed as it was dropped from a stack....enabling to feel for a 12 while there was already a 10inch on the platter, or know that a 10 inch was being dropped when the 12 inch feeler was not set, so the changer would know to set for a 10 inch setting position...

 

[anthony]

dansette

didnt make changers they used BSR or Garrard changers in there machines and the one in your picture looks suspiciously like a BSR thats been made for a customer it happened a lot over here both BSR and garrard did it for Murphy Bush they even made a changer for Phillips when i say made all they did was alter the end of the arm to take the phillips pull off cartridge both BSR and Garrard hardly changed there designs all the changes were on the whole cosmetic of course the one other brand that was quite prominent here was Colaro i dont know a lot about those

 

[anthony]

forgot

to say the earlier BSR and Garrard changers had the feeler gismo for detecting the size of records usually a little arm sticking out at the back that would feel the record as it fell to the turntable later BSR made some like the one in the picture above with the little feeler next to the turntable that pops up to feel the record in the same way i have to say that turntable is screaming BSR at me