DIRECT FEED! So I DID do a direct feed but it sounded BAD, there was a line hum and the grungy sound only came out of the left channel (as expected.) Trust me - you aren't missing anything as far as THATS concerned! Do you have any portables like this one?
Even more basic was my O.M.G.S. portable phono from 1965. No turntable, the record sat on a tiny hub with a short spindle. An idler wheel, driven by a motor shaft underneath the record drove the record directly. When you moved the tiny hub from the 45 to 33 album size, the idler contacted out farther on the record, thus turning the 12 inch record slower. Really cheesy, and sounded pretty bad. It ran on 3 "C" cells and had a rudimentary AM radio.
You are absolutely correct. E j Korvettes merged with spartan industries in 1966 and came up with Kor Sonics. Trivia they also produced Kor Sonic acoustic guitars
Bit of a random comment, but for Christmas, I got my Grandma's record collection. A lot of it is from the early 50s, and there's some old shellac 78s in there. I'm super excited to go through more of them. Feels like they get a new life with me, and I get to hear the records my Grandma bought when she was young and excited about hearing them.
I remaster original lp’s,45’s,78’s,transcription disks and … ( my own personal records) for the hopeful future of the online radio station that has been in the works for a few years now. So many albums, singles to copy! When I get on the pc tomorrow I will try to post the instructions to but a remastery wire!
We shouldn't be too hard on that sweet little record player sonically speaking. At the age group it was aimed at... we were listening to our favorite songs on our favorite radio. Stations../ mostly AM at that... when AM actually had hit music and top 40, on little transistor radios with one inch speakers the music played on the records on that machine sounded about the same as what we heard on our little radios. We only knew the difference from older siblings that by that time had bigger stereos or our parent's hi-fis. Our ears had not been developed to the difference yet.
I had this same record player but in the orange color! It was my first record player and I had gotten it for Christmas in 1970 or 1971. Brings back so many memories. Now I'll need to try to find one again (in orange of course!). Thanks for video.
Honestly, the sound of that player is the sound I grew up with. I'm not sure I can say I crave it or wish my stereo sounded like it now, but hearing the records sure brings back memories of the little radios and record players I had growing up!! Thanks for sharing.
Wow, that was so cool. Have seen a few of the vintage plastic record players from the past, but have not seen one like this one. Thank you for showing this off.
Definitely Brady Bunch but more late 60s early 70s. The green is brighter than avocado. Remember the 1970s Panasonic radios the Toot-a-Loop and the Panapet? I still have my Panapet in bright yellow. They came in red, orange, green, blue etc and the had a portable 8-track but I forgot what it was called. Really cool little unit. I could picture taking that to the little summer place at the lake of the Ozarks as a kid. It actually looks like the quality is pretty decent for what it is.
@ Branson is is quite lovely. Our close family friends who were also neighbors (they actually introduced our mom and dad to each other) built a little summer place at Osage Beach in the late 50s/early 60s that was quite modest by today's standards there... for their family (their youngest daughter is about four years older than me and I'm a bit over five years older than my younger brother). It was on a wonderfully quiet cove and the road leading there was called "Huff n Pull Hill" lol (you can't make this stuff up). It was so of the era. The area was still mostly mom and pop motels with the exception of Tan Tara. It was a kid's paradise. There were no chain stores or chain grocery stores... the place everyone went was Carl's Market... and they had EVERYTHING! You could buy deli meat and water skis, and everything in between. There was a floating restaurant called The Clown, that you got to by boat, that was by day time a burger joint for families, kids etc, and in the being teenagers could dance there. There was the Strip where there were amusements, rides, fudge shops, and array of corny, hokey fun stuff like the "outhouse" on the sidewalk that when you opened the door, it had an animated geezer that would yell "Shut the door" and a Wild Mouse roller coaster that was rumored to have come from the old Chain of Rocks Park. When the style wasn't rustic, the predominant color was mid century turquoise. Our friends had a wonderful Hydrodyne inboard ski boat (the engine exhaust looked like a jet engine) powered by a Volvo Penta engine in white and turquoise that looked like something that Rob and Laura Petrie would have owned. I'd just about sell my souls for that boat now. The cabin itself wasn't quite an A-frame but almost with apartment size GE built in oven and stove and fridge, the kitchen was part of a large open family room with Naugahyde and chrome furniture that was indestructible and safe when you came I. With wet swimming suits. Bedrooms on opposite ends and a bathroom in the basement with the ski stuff that you either had to walk around and go in the garage door or go "down the hatch" which was a door in the floor with a ladder that was not quite stairs. If we were not in the water we were on the floating dock and I imagine that sweet little record player being right at home on the floating rock while sun tanning or up on the deck. The cabin was torn down for another McMansion soon after it was sold when our neighbors got too old to drive out there. Carl's Market and a the Clown are long gone and the cove is no longer quiet: you wouldn't swim there now or you'd get hit by a cigarette boat. Things change... not always for the better. It was a wonderful memory of an era.
My first stereo was a handed down humongous piece of furniture my parents had. Had a turntable on one side a cassette deck in the middle and a am/fm 8track on the right hand side. It was like 5 foot long had a large wood top with hinges. I preferred 8tracks in the days because in that stereo they sounded great. I think it was a zenith
Cool stuff. I had a battery operated radio phono as a little kid. It was really my parents'. I kind of took it over. It could run off of AC, too. I used to take it outside and play my parents 45's on it. I didn't listen to kiddie records much.
Original bill hailey 45s and early lps always were faster sounding than the later versions. Plus also high treble also has a tendency to sound like the music is playing at a faster speed even though it is running correct. True fact, the original version of The American Breed’s song “Bend Me, Shape Me” was actually much much slower than the versions most people have heard. I have the promo version, and you would be shocked if you heard how much slower this original version is vs the one that is most commonly known/Heard.
Just so you know there are some songs that just went into the public domain. Ravel's Bolero Gershwin's An American in Paris Singing In The Rain Fats Waller's Ain't Misbehaving So if you have any of those pieces of music on an Album you can play it without fear of copyright issues.
True but sometimes the performance itself is copyrighted and sometimes there are false claims on music. It’s very hard to find something that does not set off the copyright scanning bots.
@@Recordology Well I guess you could find out which recordings are in the public domain. Popeye for example also went into the public domain. But as in the case of Mickey Mouse it depends on the version. In the case of Popeye, it's the original version, before the spinach eating came into being.
I had a solid state record player as a child in the 70s. This is what it looked and sounded like in the UK th-cam.com/video/vkG3qbUtFgY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=1cFMYUX59IndvGZF
By the early 1970s superhetrodyne radios were not so special. By that time, they were the standard, having being introduced in the 1930s. Even your 1947 Philco is a superhet.
Hey buddy remind me very much of the Fisher price record player might have been the same manufacturer I don't know but very interesting mom and dad tried to get me an iPhone for my birthday I didn't like it had problems so I switched back to Samsung and they are bringing it hopefully Friday early Christmas birthday present anyhow thanks happy new year
DIRECT FEED! So I DID do a direct feed but it sounded BAD, there was a line hum and the grungy sound only came out of the left channel (as expected.) Trust me - you aren't missing anything as far as THATS concerned! Do you have any portables like this one?
Even more basic was my O.M.G.S. portable phono from 1965. No turntable, the record sat on a tiny hub with a short spindle. An idler wheel, driven by a motor shaft underneath the record drove the record directly. When you moved the tiny hub from the 45 to 33 album size, the idler contacted out farther on the record, thus turning the 12 inch record slower. Really cheesy, and sounded pretty bad. It ran on 3 "C" cells and had a rudimentary AM radio.
Korvettes was a chain of department stores in the '60s and '70s, so perhaps KorSonic was their house brand of audio equipment.
I remember them from years ago along with Two Guys when I lived in New Jersey.
It WAS one of their house brands.
They had others...XAM was one of them.
My Mom worked at Korvette's in the dress department. Their house brand was XAM. We had a XAM French Provincial console stereo.
You are absolutely correct. E j Korvettes merged with spartan industries in 1966 and came up with Kor Sonics. Trivia they also produced Kor Sonic acoustic guitars
Bit of a random comment, but for Christmas, I got my Grandma's record collection. A lot of it is from the early 50s, and there's some old shellac 78s in there. I'm super excited to go through more of them. Feels like they get a new life with me, and I get to hear the records my Grandma bought when she was young and excited about hearing them.
That is so cool! What a great gift.
I remaster original lp’s,45’s,78’s,transcription disks and … ( my own personal records) for the hopeful future of the online radio station that has been in the works for a few years now. So many albums, singles to copy!
When I get on the pc tomorrow I will try to post the instructions to but a remastery wire!
That was cool. The style and colors do bring back a lot of memories.
*Hipster Heaven!!!* That said, you sold me on the colours & dials alone.
Definitely fun, but it's also very functional!
We shouldn't be too hard on that sweet little record player sonically speaking. At the age group it was aimed at... we were listening to our favorite songs on our favorite radio. Stations../ mostly AM at that... when AM actually had hit music and top 40, on little transistor radios with one inch speakers the music played on the records on that machine sounded about the same as what we heard on our little radios. We only knew the difference from older siblings that by that time had bigger stereos or our parent's hi-fis. Our ears had not been developed to the difference yet.
That is a great point, I hadn't thought of it that way.
I had this same record player but in the orange color! It was my first record player and I had gotten it for Christmas in 1970 or 1971. Brings back so many memories. Now I'll need to try to find one again (in orange of course!). Thanks for video.
That’s really cool!
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE vintage phonographs (especially ones from the 1970's)!
Honestly, the sound of that player is the sound I grew up with. I'm not sure I can say I crave it or wish my stereo sounded like it now, but hearing the records sure brings back memories of the little radios and record players I had growing up!! Thanks for sharing.
Happy New Year! I didn't own this little machine, but that color is giving me 60-70s flashbacks.
Love everything 70’s - Great looking player
Wow, that was so cool. Have seen a few of the vintage plastic record players from the past, but have not seen one like this one. Thank you for showing this off.
Glad you liked it!
Definitely Brady Bunch but more late 60s early 70s. The green is brighter than avocado. Remember the 1970s Panasonic radios the Toot-a-Loop and the Panapet? I still have my Panapet in bright yellow. They came in red, orange, green, blue etc and the had a portable 8-track but I forgot what it was called.
Really cool little unit. I could picture taking that to the little summer place at the lake of the Ozarks as a kid.
It actually looks like the quality is pretty decent for what it is.
What part of the Ozarks did you visit? We love the Branson area.
@ Branson is is quite lovely. Our close family friends who were also neighbors (they actually introduced our mom and dad to each other) built a little summer place at Osage Beach in the late 50s/early 60s that was quite modest by today's standards there... for their family (their youngest daughter is about four years older than me and I'm a bit over five years older than my younger brother). It was on a wonderfully quiet cove and the road leading there was called "Huff n Pull Hill" lol (you can't make this stuff up). It was so of the era. The area was still mostly mom and pop motels with the exception of Tan Tara. It was a kid's paradise. There were no chain stores or chain grocery stores... the place everyone went was Carl's Market... and they had EVERYTHING! You could buy deli meat and water skis, and everything in between. There was a floating restaurant called The Clown, that you got to by boat, that was by day time a burger joint for families, kids etc, and in the being teenagers could dance there. There was the Strip where there were amusements, rides, fudge shops, and array of corny, hokey fun stuff like the "outhouse" on the sidewalk that when you opened the door, it had an animated geezer that would yell "Shut the door" and a Wild Mouse roller coaster that was rumored to have come from the old Chain of Rocks Park. When the style wasn't rustic, the predominant color was mid century turquoise. Our friends had a wonderful Hydrodyne inboard ski boat (the engine exhaust looked like a jet engine) powered by a Volvo Penta engine in white and turquoise that looked like something that Rob and Laura Petrie would have owned. I'd just about sell my souls for that boat now. The cabin itself wasn't quite an A-frame but almost with apartment size GE built in oven and stove and fridge, the kitchen was part of a large open family room with Naugahyde and chrome furniture that was indestructible and safe when you came I. With wet swimming suits. Bedrooms on opposite ends and a bathroom in the basement with the ski stuff that you either had to walk around and go in the garage door or go "down the hatch" which was a door in the floor with a ladder that was not quite stairs. If we were not in the water we were on the floating dock and I imagine that sweet little record player being right at home on the floating rock while sun tanning or up on the deck.
The cabin was torn down for another McMansion soon after it was sold when our neighbors got too old to drive out there. Carl's Market and a the Clown are long gone and the cove is no longer quiet: you wouldn't swim there now or you'd get hit by a cigarette boat. Things change... not always for the better. It was a wonderful memory of an era.
Cool video! Keep the good videos up bro!
Thanks! I'm planning on more soon.
Your grandma looks great!
I love these videos reviewing vintage units!
Classic Record-ology !! 😎👍🇺🇲🇺🇲
I was a fan as soon as I saw it
Good sounding phonograph 😊
Nice vintage radio phonograph , and a beautiful gramophone there , greetings from Assen in the Netherlands , and the best wishes for 2025 !!
Many thanks!
From the brief research I've done, it's made sometime between 1966-1971.
sounds good to my old ears
Me too....
Happy New Year! Looking forward to more videos in 2025!
Happy new year!
My first stereo was a handed down humongous piece of furniture my parents had. Had a turntable on one side a cassette deck in the middle and a am/fm 8track on the right hand side. It was like 5 foot long had a large wood top with hinges. I preferred 8tracks in the days because in that stereo they sounded great. I think it was a zenith
Sounds like you had a pretty great setup!
Cool stuff. I had a battery operated radio phono as a little kid. It was really my parents'. I kind of took it over. It could run off of AC, too. I used to take it outside and play my parents 45's on it. I didn't listen to kiddie records much.
I want that Johnny Cash album.
Cool little device, though. I'm a little jealous.
Would be a cool player to take to the used record store to test out records.
Original bill hailey 45s and early lps always were faster sounding than the later versions. Plus also high treble also has a tendency to sound like the music is playing at a faster speed even though it is running correct.
True fact, the original version of The American Breed’s song “Bend Me, Shape Me” was actually much much slower than the versions most people have heard. I have the promo version, and you would be shocked if you heard how much slower this original version is vs the one that is most commonly known/Heard.
I think it sounded fine for what it is 👍
👏👏👏
Just so you know there are some songs that just went into the public domain.
Ravel's Bolero
Gershwin's An American in Paris
Singing In The Rain
Fats Waller's Ain't Misbehaving
So if you have any of those pieces of music on an Album you can play it without fear of copyright issues.
True but sometimes the performance itself is copyrighted and sometimes there are false claims on music. It’s very hard to find something that does not set off the copyright scanning bots.
@@Recordology Well I guess you could find out which recordings are in the public domain.
Popeye for example also went into the public domain. But as in the case of Mickey Mouse it depends on the version. In the case of Popeye, it's the original version, before the spinach eating came into being.
I have a blue one with an am radio and phonograph. It is brand new
Wonder how that would sound plugged into an amplified speaker.
Kor/Sonic was EJ Korvettes house brand of electronics.
That's correct!
In Italy you find this in 1960-1970's
I had a solid state record player as a child in the 70s. This is what it looked and sounded like in the UK
th-cam.com/video/vkG3qbUtFgY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=1cFMYUX59IndvGZF
By the early 1970s superhetrodyne radios were not so special. By that time, they were the standard, having being introduced in the 1930s. Even your 1947 Philco is a superhet.
Oh really? LOL hmmmm....learning as I go here.
Hey buddy remind me very much of the Fisher price record player might have been the same manufacturer I don't know but very interesting mom and dad tried to get me an iPhone for my birthday I didn't like it had problems so I switched back to Samsung and they are bringing it hopefully Friday early Christmas birthday present anyhow thanks happy new year