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Sony PS-F9 for sale on US eBay

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Doesn’t seem to be working, but seems a reasonable price if you’ve got the skills and want to take the chance that you can get it going.

Sony PS-F9 Linear Tracking Portable Turntable Vintage – eBay (item 270529575845 end time Mar-12-10 13:15:07 PST).

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Soundburger Emulator: Crosley Revolution

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Crosley, a company which knocks out some fairly ugly, cheesy retro type nastiness have apparently created a revolution. The only thing is that their revolution is a copy of a reasonably well known 80s Japanese portable turntable: Audio Technica’s Soundburger. Look forward to some direct comparisons of build and sound quality once the product’s out.

Their homepage has an animation which was saying that it’s coming on early January 2010, but they’ve now removed the date and the product’s still not on their product page.

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The Audiophile Club of Athens

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

An interesting short film from 2006 about Greek Audiophiles and their love for big, elaborate, expensive Hi-Fi.

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For Sale: The world’s largest record collection

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

“This is a short film I made about the owner of the world’s largest record collection. This film probably best represents the direction I see myself going as a director. I love everything about it. It’s my baby.” Sean Dunne: Director

The Archive by Sean Dunne is the story of Paul Mawhinney’s record collection, which is now up for sale

I hope Paul’s collection gets preserved in its entirety somehow soon. Such a huge slice of history which, sadly, no one seems interested in.

Tags: Paul Mawhinney, record collector, record rama, world's largest record collection
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Crossley Traveller Portable Suitcase Turntable

Friday, August 7th, 2009

Not much technical information here, but first impressions are that it’s well made. On sale at the moment here too

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Baird Emerson Wondergram

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

First produced in London by Baird in 1960, this is probably the first portable record player to have a similar form factor to the PS-F5. Definitely a direct ancestor.

The design is truly ingenious, open the lid, pop your disc onto the spindle and gently place the needle on the end of the tone arm into the groove and it starts playing. The record is spun by a pair of wheels set into the top of the case, they are spaced so that the innermost one drives 45s, and the out one drives LPs. To stop both wheels trying to drive the disc at the same time the inner one is slightly smaller, so that when you are playing an LP it doesn’t come into contact with the record. The speaker is on the underside, and you would think that the sound will be muffled, but they have that one covered. Three spring–loaded feet raise the player off he ground, allowing the three-transistor amplifier full reign to blast your socks off. Actually it’s not that loud but it’s enough to fill a small room – providing there’s not too much background noise…

From Dusty Gizmos.