15-03-2018, 10:10 AM
Hi.
A few years ago I picked up a 1963 Dynatron Marlow from Edinburgh FOC. It was left in a house a young couple bought. It was mint and complete with all documentation, the receipt was over £300. Now it had an Ekco made chassis, not to dynatron standards but never the less very good. I refurbished it and my youngest daughter has it. Its been in two flats now and is about to move again. It certainly was well worth restoring, some of the low end ones though are pretty ropey, the VHF performance is often mediocre and the use of rather small elliptical speakers disappointing. I agree with Sam in that by the late 50's and early in the next decade at the low end of the market our stuff was poor. Why people fawn over Dansette record players with one UL84 beats me, to me they are total junk!
A few years ago I picked up a 1963 Dynatron Marlow from Edinburgh FOC. It was left in a house a young couple bought. It was mint and complete with all documentation, the receipt was over £300. Now it had an Ekco made chassis, not to dynatron standards but never the less very good. I refurbished it and my youngest daughter has it. Its been in two flats now and is about to move again. It certainly was well worth restoring, some of the low end ones though are pretty ropey, the VHF performance is often mediocre and the use of rather small elliptical speakers disappointing. I agree with Sam in that by the late 50's and early in the next decade at the low end of the market our stuff was poor. Why people fawn over Dansette record players with one UL84 beats me, to me they are total junk!
