22-05-2024, 09:19 PM
The vertical rod should have pin/peg only visible when the arm is lifted.
All those compact transportable record players very cheaply made. Hence live chassis, cheap high output cartridge, simple amp. Designed for party listening of pop/rock 45s, not HiFi or contemplative listening (in 1950s also 78 pop singles). So sales fell off a cliff in 1969 when "HiFi" got cheap. The supermarket suitcase style are today's equivalent and some of them are poorer decks, no better cartridge, microgroove only stylus even though a 78 speed and far too small speakers. I got one cheap/reduced less than 1/2 price and fitted a cartridge with flip-over true 78 stylus, some other mods (so to capture 78s to computer) and cut a pair of holes in base for 4″ circular speakers instead of the tiny elliptical ones. Hardly worth it. I do have a Dual turntable, but it only does 45 & 33. It needed both belts replaced.
Some of the cheap players also had 16.x rpm speed for language courses and "books for the blind".
The 45s where cut with high output too. If you cut at reduced amplitude like a Classical LP you can fit nearly 11 minutes per side. They are not louder due to higher RPM. A good portion of a 33 LP is actually a higher linear speed due to diameter. For years I thought 78s were mostly 10″ with a few kids titles as 7″ but a album of full length concert was 12″ discs and Cinema used larger ones played from the centre at 33& 1/3rd, but the 78 material and big grooves from about 1932.
All those compact transportable record players very cheaply made. Hence live chassis, cheap high output cartridge, simple amp. Designed for party listening of pop/rock 45s, not HiFi or contemplative listening (in 1950s also 78 pop singles). So sales fell off a cliff in 1969 when "HiFi" got cheap. The supermarket suitcase style are today's equivalent and some of them are poorer decks, no better cartridge, microgroove only stylus even though a 78 speed and far too small speakers. I got one cheap/reduced less than 1/2 price and fitted a cartridge with flip-over true 78 stylus, some other mods (so to capture 78s to computer) and cut a pair of holes in base for 4″ circular speakers instead of the tiny elliptical ones. Hardly worth it. I do have a Dual turntable, but it only does 45 & 33. It needed both belts replaced.
Some of the cheap players also had 16.x rpm speed for language courses and "books for the blind".
The 45s where cut with high output too. If you cut at reduced amplitude like a Classical LP you can fit nearly 11 minutes per side. They are not louder due to higher RPM. A good portion of a 33 LP is actually a higher linear speed due to diameter. For years I thought 78s were mostly 10″ with a few kids titles as 7″ but a album of full length concert was 12″ discs and Cinema used larger ones played from the centre at 33& 1/3rd, but the 78 material and big grooves from about 1932.
