You may find a vintage unit that does tick the boxes for you but I cannot advise on those. I don't believe you will find a modern all-in-one that would meet the definition of hi fidelity (at least by my definition). it's fairly unusual to even have a base/treble knobs now. Likewise, the wide-range doped paper speaker cones wouldn't have been the last word in treble extension.Ĭlick to expand.Don't think that something that anyone into hi fidelity music would do, cannot remember the last time I saw an EQ from anyone like Arcam, Cyrus, Marantz, Cambridge Audio etc. The amp inside those record players could well have been designed to favour midrange and bass so as not to emphasise surface noise. Tube amps are still in vogue so there's nothing wrong with the technology in principle. It's a whole load more than the 1.5-1.8g typical with Hi-Fi turntables. That's a lot compared to around 2.5-3.5g for a typical Technics/Pioneer/Sony-type midi system/stack system turntable. ![]() Looking at the Dansette site, they show a tracking force gauge reading 5.77g. ![]() There are two aspects here the quality (smoothness) of the bearings and how to adjust the tracking weight. Bear in mind though, you're working within the limits of what the arm will allow. However, it's going to be a challenge to improve the sound of them beyond a minor bit of tinkering from changing the cartridge. Going for another Bush or Dansette is still an option. Unless your Technics deck is one of the heavy DJ types, you'd be far better served getting that out now and then and hooking it up to an amplified speaker rather than purchasing a new portable with its own integrated amp and speaker(s).įor a practical solution, rip the LPs to your computer and then play the digital files. Today's crop of inexpensive portable turntables just ain't that good because they are the equivalent of toys for those who are bitten by nostalgia from the revival of interest in vinyl. Even allowing for the cost advantages of mass production, and advances in materials, it still puts the quality of £50-£100 Crossleys and the like in to some kind of perspective. £8,000 would buy a lot of stereo gear in today's market. Today, someone on National Minimum Wage doing 40 hours a week earns a little over £16,000 per year before Tax and Insurance. No surprise then that most were bought on hire purchase! (source: Hansard) That means the record player was the equivalent of half a year's wages. The average manual worker's wage was around 8 Shillings a week in the early to mid 60s. Each Guinea was the equivalent of 21 Shillings. ![]() The 'budget' Dansette model was 11 Guineas at launch in 1962. What's also forgotten with these vintage products is their original cost. ![]() The limitations though were the relatively crude pick-up cartridge being a ceramic rather than a moving magnet, and the bias towards playing 45s rather than the later trend for LPs which was the coming trend of the 70s. Their size did allow the fitting of a reasonable size internal speaker, and that gave them a reasonable volume as well as some depth of tone compared to modern players. The classic vintage turntables of the 50s and 60s such as Dansettes, Bush models, Fergusons and the like were luggable rather than portable. Portable and turntable are two words that generally don't go together.
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