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BTH K10A
25-08-2013, 06:58
Never seen one of these before but it's certainly built like a battleship and the
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RCA-Type-73-B-Transcriptoin-Turntable-Full-Restored-WW-Shipping-/121162214308?pt=Vintage_Electronics_R2&hash=item1c35d4aba4
Gray tomearms are nice too.
walpurgis
25-08-2013, 08:54
Never seen one of these before but it's certainly built like a battleship and the
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RCA-Type-73-B-Transcriptoin-Turntable-Full-Restored-WW-Shipping-/121162214308?pt=Vintage_Electronics_R2&hash=item1c35d4aba4
Gray tomearms are nice too.
Well it certainly looks interesting, not sure it's ten grand's worth of 'interesting' though and I'd imagine tracking down spares would be a nightmare.
Wakefield Turntables
25-08-2013, 10:52
Looks the business but wouldn't pay £10k for it.
BTH K10A
25-08-2013, 16:39
Looks the business but wouldn't pay £10k for it.
Neither would I but, in a market where some mono records are changing hands at £5k+ and a pair of Western Electric 4181a's go for £20k+ who knows what someone will pay for it.
Wakefield Turntables
25-08-2013, 17:59
Not those price! Thats Audiophoolery.
Everything about the turntable is just :wow: :wowzer:
Marco.
Audio Al
14-09-2013, 03:56
:eek: 62lb Platter :eek:
sq225917
14-09-2013, 07:23
That's a nice bit of history, not sure you can price something like that in any normal way. It sure is ugly.
17.5" platter - must have been designed to play 16" discs. Why no 45rpm? - RCA invented the "45". :scratch:
No specification for rumble or W&F, though with a 50/62 lb (which?) platter mass and double drive the latter should be very low.
Bet replacement idlers are impossible to get nowadays, or if they are available will cost a fortune. (Replacement idlers for my EMT 930 cost around £90! :doh: )
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