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

[Kenneth Marcy]

On 7/17/2013 11:20 PM, Darrell Keim wrote:
> Sounds like you had some fun, Don!  What is a Q multiplier?

Here's an amateur operator who is not so restrained about describing and 
demonstrating a Q multiplier:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFGkkk72iN0


Ken


>
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Don Coombs <wildmushroomer at gmail.com 
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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
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>         Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett
>
>         On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 7:16 PM, Kenneth Marcy
>         <kmmos1 at frontier.com <mailto: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:
>
>             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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