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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/17/2013 11:20 PM, Darrell Keim
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<div class="gmail_extra">Sounds like you had some fun, Don! What
is a Q multiplier?<br>
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Here's an amateur operator who is not so restrained about describing
and demonstrating a Q multiplier:<br>
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Ken<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Don
Coombs <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<div>It's like memory lane to hear about tube
amplifiers etc.<br>
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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.<br>
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<div>Fisher also was early into selling component
audio, I think.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.)<br>
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I still have the VTVM and the Q-multiplier and could be
induced to part with them.<br>
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Don Coombs<br>
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<div class="h5">On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Ted
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<div dir="ltr">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:<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">The calculator show
this equates to $1187 from 1967 to 2012.<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">The $500 price of that
May 2013 Ebay listing for this turntable may
be way under priced... Or maybe it needed
refurbishing...<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">Consider this Ebay
listing, that just ended July 15, 2013, with
extensive information on the specifications of
the turntable, where the winning bid was <span>US
$1,525.00... The phono cartridge also needs
to be considered in the price... </span><br>
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target="_blank">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</a><br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">Vision2020 Post: Ted
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On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 7:16 PM, Kenneth
Marcy <span dir="ltr"><<a
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<div>On 7/16/2013 5:03 PM, Ted Moffett
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<div>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...<br>
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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:<br>
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Considering only Consumer Price Index
changes, $500.00 in 2012 dollars is the
equivalent of $69.89 in 1965 dollars.<br>
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Would you like to do this or other
calculations yourself? Here's the URL:
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.westegg.com/inflation/"
target="_blank">http://www.westegg.com/inflation/</a>
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Ken<br>
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