[78-L] Warner "Big Band" set - Go watch it! <vbg>

[Jeff Austin]

Perhaps I should have been more specific:  I am led to believe, by an informed and physic-minded source, that the initial Electrola straight black arms exerted significantly more mass against the groove.  The more elaborate arm assembly on other models was apparently a little better balanced.  I have no reason to disbelieve him.  In playing my machine (before a plumbing catastrophe befell it), I just stuck to the stack of not-unusual, VG and downward dance and vocal stuff that I'd play on any acoustic phono.  

I was terribly fond of my RE-45, which was in really exceptional condition until the ceiling, and a substantial amount of water came down on it.  A cautionary tale:  never leave the house.

J.


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From: Robert M. Bratcher Jr. <bratcher at pdq.net>
To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Tue, December 15, 2009 5:26:45 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Warner "Big Band" set - Go watch it!  <vbg>

At 01:26 PM 12/15/2009, you wrote:


>Your machine has some interesting history:  it was produced just as 
>Victor was being acquired by RCA.  The record-playing aspect of it 
>is to be avoided... the arm and horseshoe magnetic cartridge were 
>record-killers.  The original speaker, however, in this unit was 
>designed by the engineers at Victor Talking Machine Company.  It was 
>far ahead of its time and superior to what RCA used in subsequent 
>Electrola models.
>
>J.

How many plays would it take to kill a record (wear it out) on that machine? 

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