This I found on a Second Hand store today,..it was here everything started.
Some older here on the forum,..their parents might have played on one of these.
Here you probably need no needle-wave,..and that the engine takes in the base-board (The LP12-Radikal Problem) has probably no meaning .
Glorious times…
My parents inherited something akin to the below from my maternal grandmother. As a small child I took great delight in spinning the black discs whilst said device was off. Destroyed a great copy of the Planets.
Project Yellow Submarine turntable. I saw this at the Bristol show, and fell in love. I am slightly worried that after a Saturday night bottle of wine I might end up ordering one over the ‘Net.
I had the chance to trade an old h.h.scott amp and tuner for a rtr a couple of years ago - the choice came down to revox a77 or b77 or (as i found out wait til later the same day) and trade for a tandberg td20. I went with the tandberg as it goes well with my tcd-340 cassette. But the revox is/was equally appealing.
I think it may be more that numbers of people are posting extreme things rather than indicating that they personally like the style - but presumably the designer thought that they looked good, albeit that with some things, notably speakers, the form may be dictated by the audio design criteria.
I certainly hope that is the case…because some (especially some tt’s) are especially ugly. As far as the designer liking the looks, especially " boxy" electronics, I think often they went for a " premium" finish rather than any regard to aesthetics. I was mostly wondering if ppl. would choose pieces from one period or if one piece might be 70’s another from the 90’s and something from current design. That is why sq had no “weight” in deciding.
Not sure that a ‘premium’ finish is really style? To me that is the surface, and hoe it looks (’solid’ vs flimsy, metal vs plastic, matt vs gloss etc) Fir be, I have only ever chosen on sound quality, other than choosing black rather than chrome on a few occasions where there was an option.
However some styles are hideous - and to me, but apparently not others, that included the chrome finished amps bristling with knobs and VU meters that sprang up when Japansee hifi products started to make inroads into the UK in the 1970s.