Hi - I recall a post about these a while ago, but can't seem to find them
now. A friend has asked me about getting one (turntable-amp-spkrs in one
box) as a short-medium term solution while she's moving home and has all her
stuff (except records) in storage.

Anyone any opinions/views?

TIA

Rob

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 13:50:46 +0100, "Rob"
wrote:

Hi - I recall a post about these a while ago, but can't seem to find them
now. A friend has asked me about getting one (turntable-amp-spkrs in one
box) as a short-medium term solution while she's moving home and has all her
stuff (except records) in storage.

Anyone any opinions/views?

TIA

Rob

You need a Dansette! Must be one on Ebay somewhere.

d

Pearce Consulting
http://www.pearce.uk.com

Rob wrote:

Hi - I recall a post about these a while ago, but can't seem to find them
now. A friend has asked me about getting one (turntable-amp-spkrs in one
box) as a short-medium term solution while she's moving home and has all her
stuff (except records) in storage.

Anyone any opinions/views?

TIA

Rob

You don't want the speakers in the same box as the turntable - there's a
risk of acoustic feedback from the speakers and it will almost certainly
degrade the sound. A turntable/amp combination with separate speakers
would be fine though.

In fact - I have a Dynatron unit with a Garrard SP25 built in that I'm
thinking of selling.

Cheers.

James.

In article ,
Don Pearce wrote:
You need a Dansette! Must be one on Ebay somewhere.

Would you play your records on one of those? ;-)

--
*Nostalgia isn't what is used to be.

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 18:45:57 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article ,
Don Pearce wrote:
You need a Dansette! Must be one on Ebay somewhere.

Would you play your records on one of those? ;-)

I did (for most of my 45s anyway). But that was real - not
post-ironic.

d

Pearce Consulting
http://www.pearce.uk.com

"Rob" wrote
Hi - I recall a post about these a while ago, but can't seem to find them
now. A friend has asked me about getting one (turntable-amp-spkrs in one
box) as a short-medium term solution while she's moving home and has all her
stuff (except records) in storage.

Anyone any opinions/views?

Here you go.

With valve amp!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...sPageName=WDVW


Martin
--
M.A.Poyser Tel.: 07967 110890
Manchester, U.K. http://www.fleetie.demon.co.uk

In article ,
Don Pearce wrote:
Would you play your records on one of those? ;-)

I did (for most of my 45s anyway). But that was real - not
post-ironic.

Ah. We had a pre-war Marconi radiogram post fitted with a Collaro
autochanger in my 45 days. So the 'valve' sound isn't new. Wonder if mains
energized loudspeakers will come back as well?

The switchable tone controls were labelled 'bass' and 'brilliance'...

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*If you don't like the news, go out and make some.

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 19:40:10 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article ,
Don Pearce wrote:
Would you play your records on one of those? ;-)

I did (for most of my 45s anyway). But that was real - not
post-ironic.

Ah. We had a pre-war Marconi radiogram post fitted with a Collaro
autochanger in my 45 days. So the 'valve' sound isn't new. Wonder if mains
energized loudspeakers will come back as well?

The switchable tone controls were labelled 'bass' and 'brilliance'...

I remember that for my mother tone controls had to be left on full
treble cut. She then described the sound as "mellow". Actually, it was
a bit of compensation on radio. Her method of tuning was to leave the
volume control turned way up, then tune just far enough into a station
to get the volume she wanted. This was medium wave of course. Later
she used the same method on FM - you can imagine the result, but she
still liked it.

d

Pearce Consulting
http://www.pearce.uk.com

"Rob" wrote in message
...
: Hi - I recall a post about these a while ago, but can't seem to find them
: now. A friend has asked me about getting one (turntable-amp-spkrs in one
: box) as a short-medium term solution while she's moving home and has all
her
: stuff (except records) in storage.
:
: Anyone any opinions/views?
:
: TIA
:
: Rob
:
Many thanks all - some marvellous curiosities on ebay! I've passed on the
recommendations and I'll let you know ...

Rob

In article ,
Don Pearce wrote:
I remember that for my mother tone controls had to be left on full
treble cut. She then described the sound as "mellow". Actually, it was
a bit of compensation on radio. Her method of tuning was to leave the
volume control turned way up, then tune just far enough into a station
to get the volume she wanted. This was medium wave of course. Later
she used the same method on FM - you can imagine the result, but she
still liked it.

Sounds like mine. On holiday at us one day she decided to do some
Hoovering while listening to R4 on FM. She turned it up to hear it over
the racket, and cooked all the tweeters in my BC1s. Used to having
compression on R4 medium wave (Scotland) she said -'but it wasn't that
loud'...

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*Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.