EMT Audio "porn"

[Barry]

35 pages of EMT audio "porn":

http://www.lencoheaven.net/forum/index.php?topic=7793.0

Some may recognise one of the photos on p.33.

Marco, you may need calming down after looking at some of the pics!

[Marco]

Oooh... I'll have a good read at that later!

Marco.

[pure sound]

I was listening to one of these two restored 927's last weekend at the Euro Triode Festival in Berlin. The owner was playing a fabulous array of 50's jazz & rock n roll from both 78's and LPs. Very impressive.





It wasn't the only nice idler drive there though.

I also liked this Australian Orpheus Silex the first belt/idler. TheThorens 124 came later.



The mighty Commonwealth also from Oz here with the Latvian Reed tonearm.


and 3 that Frank Schroeder brought along.

Perpetuum (another belt/idler)



A very rare Woollett Audio made in London at the end of the 50's.


and my favourite although not playing here, a Neumann.


The Neumann looked like nothing special from the outside. It was only when the platter was removed (and its 16mm dia bearing shaft) that you saw the heavyweight castings within and the wide belt drive delivering power to two differing sized idler wheels (for 33/45). This belt drive also incorporated a mechanism similar to a tape tensioner. Not many items of HiFi inspire want these days but the Neumann did. These really are hen's teeth though.

[Rare Bird]

yum yum yummy yum yum

[Barry]

That's interesting Guy.

They say "size isn't everything", but the platter bearing shaft of the Neumann deck, at 16mm diameter, is larger than that of the Thorens 124/II (14mm) and of the EMT 930 (15mm). However, I believe the platter shaft on the Empire 'Troubador' turntable was larger still!

Interesting that the Orpheus Silex (a name I had not heard of) were using a combined belt/idler drive before Thorens. But then again Thorens and Garrard had 'direct drive' decks long before Technics et al.

And the Neumann deck used separate idlers for each speed. Fascinating.

Thanks for posting.

Regards

[pure sound]

The Woollett is a rim drive I hadn't heard of before, made in the late 50's by LG Woollett in London. I get the impression these are pretty rare. I'm told they were last listed in the 1960 Hi Fi Yearbook, priced at £17 17s, almost as much as a Garrard 301 with strobe platter (£18 1s) but with more speed adjustment (+/- 8%).

[walpurgis]

MMMM, some nice old goodies there!

[cuddles]

35 pages of EMT audio "porn":

http://www.lencoheaven.net/forum/index.php?topic=7793.0

Some may recognise one of the photos on p.33.

Marco, you may need calming down after looking at some of the pics!

Never mind the EMT look at all the Impulse records

[Patrick Dixon]

Some may recognise one of the photos on p.33.

One of the photos on page 3 (next to the Rega) is one of mine of my 927.

[Smoker]

ive just gone thru that whole thread in one go....oh boy! its quite simply amazing

my gob is well and truly smacked