Phonoland

anyone see that 1930's Capehart automatic on just listed on Ebay???....i love that machine. i wouldn't mind ever finding one locally. but im shure people in Kansas couldn't afford that at the time. all i see here are single play electrics, and Victrola type players, and 40's Radio changer combos...and newer 50's 60's and 70's stuff of coarse....but in the 20's or the 30's i cant see anyone here being able to afford those....

alright....common right up!...=)


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I've always found the "play one record at a time" changers fascinating. No doubt, you're probably familiar with the great granddaddy of them all, the all-acoustic Victor Orthophonic 10-50X -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krsijE7TCZM (The audio doesn't do it justice. I've listened to this very machine in person, and there's enough bass coming out of the horn to shake the floor.) This one's a little better, sound-wise -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDvr3v-cKF0

This was followed a year later by the smaller, but no less powerful Victor 10-35 -- -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5o6cy78u-E -- Also -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2EWCND4EUQ

The Gramophone Co., Ltd., (Victor's UK sister company at the time) offered it's own version, the Model 1A HMV Automatic Gramophone, in 1929 -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsF64ukah18


Joe_DS

yes i have seen those vids...=)......and i love the innovative thinking that went into those...and not to mention the quality....theirs a reason there still serviceable after 80 plus years.


when was it when RCA Victor stared to loose quality??.....

trimline62 wrote:when was it when RCA Victor stared to loose quality??.....

The Victrolas featured in the video actually pre-date the merger between the Victor Talking Machine Co. and "The Radio Corporation of America" or RCA. RCA acquired Victor in 1929. Contrary to what has been reported on other sites, Victor was in no way teetering on bankruptcy at the time of the merger. A brief history of both companies can be found here -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Tal ... ne_Company -- and here -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA )

As for quality issues, I've heard that RCA Victor (home consumer) products started to go down hill when Robert Sarnoff took over the reins in 1970, but couldn't state this as fact.

Joe_DS

well, i half way kinda believe it....there have been a few 70's RCA products that ive seen and had, that seemed like they wernt as well even thought out as some from the early 60's and before....