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The Vintage Audio Section
Anyone heard of BSR?
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<blockquote data-quote="Doogle" data-source="post: 451740" data-attributes="member: 392"><p>Ok, fair enough - so you're a non-conformist!</p><p>I personally can understand someone collecting vintage audio like Steerpike that has an incredible knowledge base, and seems to specialise in Phillips items. But to randomly buy autochangers with ceramic cartridges that cannot be changed, with flip-over styli, and that will probably ruin your records for playing on anything near hi-fi in the future is a little beyond my comprehension. Those things will never, and have never aspired to giving hi-fi sound, and as Alty said, they were produced for mass market stereograms in the 60's. </p><p>To collect something of value that has decent sound I think the earliest items that qualify for entry level hi-fi would originate in the 70's, with the Garrard SP25 being the most basic entry level hi-fi deck they made that will accept a MM cartridge. Later come the Pioneer PL12D's etc. At least you can experiment and change cartridges on these decks, and they will never really lose their value if well looked after.</p><p>Each to his own, I suppose!</p><p>Just my 5c</p><p>Regards, Doogle</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Doogle, post: 451740, member: 392"] Ok, fair enough - so you're a non-conformist! I personally can understand someone collecting vintage audio like Steerpike that has an incredible knowledge base, and seems to specialise in Phillips items. But to randomly buy autochangers with ceramic cartridges that cannot be changed, with flip-over styli, and that will probably ruin your records for playing on anything near hi-fi in the future is a little beyond my comprehension. Those things will never, and have never aspired to giving hi-fi sound, and as Alty said, they were produced for mass market stereograms in the 60's. To collect something of value that has decent sound I think the earliest items that qualify for entry level hi-fi would originate in the 70's, with the Garrard SP25 being the most basic entry level hi-fi deck they made that will accept a MM cartridge. Later come the Pioneer PL12D's etc. At least you can experiment and change cartridges on these decks, and they will never really lose their value if well looked after. Each to his own, I suppose! Just my 5c Regards, Doogle [/QUOTE]
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