"Phil Allison" wrote in message
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Iain Churches wrote:

"Phil Allison"



Did Ampex make a cutting lathe? Perhaps you mean Westrex?



** The lathe was from the 1950s and incorporated a valve amplifier and PSU
underneath. It was a *large* machine. My memory tells me it was Ampex,
but that could be mistaken.

I was certainly not a major brand like Scully or Neumann.


I have always understood that there were three American
manufacters were, Scully, Westrex and Presto.


** AFAIK Westrex made cutting heads and amplifiers, not complete lathes.

Westrex supplied cutter head and electronics that were
often fitted to Scully lathes. They also sold complete
systems. The studio where I worked in the UK had
eight lathes, one of them Westrex (used for RCA).

Ampex certainly did not built disc cutting equipment.
They were far too busy with better things:-)


His business was called "DemoDisc" so had to be able to make them.

Good name:-)

Iain