[Vision2020] New York Audio Show 2013: Colleen “Cosmo” Murphy's "Classic Album Sundays"

[Darrell Keim]

Sounds like you had some fun, Don!  What is a Q multiplier?


On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Don Coombs <wildmushroomer at gmail.com>wrote:

> It's like memory lane to hear about tube amplifiers etc.
>
> Being old has a few advantages. I remember when "high fidelity" first
> reared its head, in the 1950s. A company came out with a separate component
> amp called the Pilot-tone (or something like that), which featured 6v6
> output tubes in push-pull. Until then people had to buy "music centers"
> where everything was built into a piece of furniture, with cheap turntable
> and poor speakers.
>
> Fisher also was early into selling component audio, I think.
>
> Later I built quite a few Heathkits. Some guy (not named Heath, maybe
> named Anthony) bought up boxcar loads of electronics that were being sold
> as surplus after World War II. If he had boxcars of a certain tube, he had
> somebody design kits that used them.
>
> I built Heathkit audio amps, a shortwave radio, a VTVM and a Q-multiplier,
> and probably some other kits. (Note my restraint in not carrying on about
> what a Q-multiplier is.)
>
> I still have the VTVM and the Q-multiplier and could be induced to part
> with them.
>
> Don Coombs
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Ted Moffett <starbliss at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I purchased that Empire 398 turntable in 1967, and the inflation
>> calculator you used shows if it cost $500 in 2012, it would be about $73 in
>> 1967... I recall a price over $100... This source indicates at least one
>> version of this turntable selling for $175 in the 1960s:
>> http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=278075
>>
>> The calculator show this equates to $1187 from 1967 to 2012.
>>
>> The $500 price of that May 2013 Ebay listing for this turntable may be
>> way under priced... Or maybe it needed refurbishing...
>>
>> Consider this Ebay listing, that just ended July 15, 2013, with extensive
>> information on the specifications of the turntable, where the winning bid
>> was US $1,525.00... The phono cartridge also needs to be considered in
>> the price...
>>
>>
>> http://www.ebay.com/itm/Empire-Troubadour-398-Vintage-Turntable-w-888-SE-Cartridge-980-Tonearm-Gold-Tone-/161060648596?nma=true&si=RJoqRF%252Bwmo%252B09gVqjDZKhwz3Cmc%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557
>> ------------------------------------------
>> Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 7:16 PM, Kenneth Marcy <kmmos1 at frontier.com>wrote:
>>
>>>  On 7/16/2013 5:03 PM, Ted Moffett wrote:
>>>
>>>  Well, no doubt the whole list is spell bound by this subject, but I
>>> could not believe what I just found with a quick search for "empire
>>> turntable cartridge 1960s" to see if I could find a reference to the
>>> turntable I had while a student at Moscow High in the 1960s...
>>>
>>>  This May 2013 Ebay listing, for 500 dollars, if you can believe it,
>>> looks exactly like the turntable I had!  I did not pay 500 dollars for it
>>> in the 1960s!  Much less... Note belt riding on the outside of the platter:<http://www.ebay.com/itm/1960s-Vintage-Empire-398-Turntable-w-h-Satin-Gold-Finish-Pickering-Cartridge-/130900234504?pt=Vintage_Electronics_R2&hash=item1e7a431108&nma=true&si=R53eSaQK9g4wGCXrwBUDYC8xzcQ%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557>
>>>
>>>
>>> Considering only Consumer Price Index changes, $500.00 in 2012 dollars
>>> is the equivalent of $69.89 in 1965 dollars.
>>>
>>> Would you like to do this or other calculations yourself?  Here's the
>>> URL:  http://www.westegg.com/inflation/
>>>
>>>
>>> Ken
>>>
>>
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