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Vinyl spinners club

#42
Germaine to topic, who here is in love with older console stereos? I absolutely love them, and had a truly bitchin sounding one with a great turntable, tape and 8 track recorder built in...and it was awesome, until the Missus made me be rid of it. Sad day I tell ya.

I wanted to gut one and put new components in it, home theater style, and with an xbox or something all wired in discreet and a flat-screen attatched to the openning lid all stealthy, and I WILL do this one day. I think it'd be the best, most unassuming piece of furniture ever.
 
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#43
hover said:
who here is in love with older console stereos?
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Most console stereos I saw and used when I was a kid had a typical, standard Garrard turntable that I hated, specially because most of them spun at higher speeds than 33 1/3 or 45 RPM. On the other hand, my grandpas had a Philips console that I truly loved. I'd do whatever to have one of those. Unfortunately I never knew the model, but the turntable was absolutely different to all those Garrards I knew. The central spindle could be removed, as well as that arm which held LP stacks (all other turntables had them fixed). All controls were cream-colored (all other turntables were black) and the speed selector went from 16 RPM to 78 RPM (I've never seen a 16 RPM disc in my life). Most consoles had an upper door that allowed access to the turntable. This Philips had a front door that, when opened, allowed you to see the whole turntable, which was like "hidden". In order to use it, you had to pull it out and it would rest over the door, which remained horizontal when fully opened.

Again, no other console was like that. Seriously, it brings tears to my eyes to remember it. Many, many hours of listening pleasure thanks to that old, special (to me) Philips.
 
#45
ulrich said:
I still have my grandpop's. Just the furniture part, my brother binned the guts long ago. It sure is a pretty thing, all book matched veneers, and carved detail.
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Well your work is halfway done then. Start loading in modern guts and you'd have a real sleeper on your hands...fire it up when company is over and watch their heads turn. :smug:

Alvaro, that stereo sounds pretty sweet. I'm sure a little research could find you some info. I'll see what's online over the weekend.

H
 
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Alvaro Martín Gómez A.;6792679 said:
Most console stereos I saw and used when I was a kid had a typical, standard Garrard turntable that I hated, specially because most of them spun at higher speeds than 33 1/3 or 45 RPM. On the other hand, my grandpas had a Philips console that I truly loved. I'd do whatever to have one of those. Unfortunately I never knew the model, but the turntable was absolutely different to all those Garrards I knew. The central spindle could be removed, as well as that arm which held LP stacks (all other turntables had them fixed). All controls were cream-colored (all other turntables were black) and the speed selector went from 16 RPM to 78 RPM (I've never seen a 16 RPM disc in my life). Most consoles had an upper door that allowed access to the turntable. This Philips had a front door that, when opened, allowed you to see the whole turntable, which was like "hidden". In order to use it, you had to pull it out and it would rest over the door, which remained horizontal when fully opened.

Again, no other console was like that. Seriously, it brings tears to my eyes to remember it. Many, many hours of listening pleasure thanks to that old, special (to me) Philips.
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Two things:

1. Man you are old like me :D
2. Peep ebay for consoles
 
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hover said:
Alvaro, peep this
http://images.google.com/imgres?img...0&ndsp=20&um=1&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS246&sa=N
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:eek: That's it! :) In that picture you can see the central spindle and arm in place, but again, they could be removed. There were two similar models of the console: The one that my grandparents had, which had two front doors. The left one had the turntable behind it, and the right one hid the radio/power controls. Also a green bulb that took a little while to get its color. When it happened, that meant that the console had "warmed up" and was ready to use.

The other model has the same turntable, but the console had an upper door like most other brands. The radio/power controls were visible on front.
 
#53
BTW, were/are you as picky as me with this? Many LPs' recorded area wasn't well-centered against the vinyl disc, resulting in an oscillation in pitch when played. Using a key to make the central hole bigger, I always made sure to fix that problem:

Vinyl001.jpg


Vinyl002.jpg


The arrows indicate the direction in which the disc should be moved making contact with the central pivot to center the recorded surface. Lots of my LPs are like those in the pictures.
 
#54
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I'm currently in the process of transferring several LPs (mainly Latin music) to mp3 format. I decided that I'm going to create a blog to post abandoned albums, which are extremely common in Latin music. Most of the times you can get classic songs from Latin repertoire on compilations, but CD versions of original LPs are extremely hard to find. The thing is, I'm scanning the album covers and that's a real hassle for me since my scanner doesn't fit the whole covers, so I must scan one half, then the other and then join them using Photoshop. That's the acceptable part of the job. What really annoys me is having to mask both halves' joint line using Photoshop's Healing Brush tool. Is that the only or best way to get a full scan of an LP cover? I've been suggested to take pictures with my camera, but lighting conditions where I live aren't the best for that and have never got good results. I really appreciate your suggestions.
 

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