I assumed those three things in large rectangular metal cases were crystals.Which crystals?
I assumed those three things in large rectangular metal cases were crystals.Which crystals?
I assumed those three things in large rectangular metal cases were crystals.
What's the WAF of that?Didn't he have an entire audio system that he designed to resemble a woman?
I had the 202 model for a few years. It was very average. I also had an Ariston RD40 - now that is a TT that oscillated! It also had rumble in spades. Wobble, wobble, bounce bounce, hummmmmmmm. Ended up adding a damping system to the SME arm to help the stylus track anything at all. Then I sold it to a collector and got a Rega which quickly led to a CD player
doesn't even have a remote control
This one?Can't find the snake form multi-thousand dollar cable, but THAT is surely the winner !!
The owner of that system is inside the belly of the power cord.This one?
12-slice toaster.For the bathroom scale lookView attachment 135452
I have seen many outlandish things in High End Audio. I have met people who did outlandish things in the name of High End Audio... This has to be top 5! I mean I am at a loss ... What's that supposed to be? An AC Power cord? From this outlet, a run of the mill outlet to the amplifier this thing would do wonders and ... Someone could actually believe so? Anyone who would have bought this thing deserved the fleecing.This one?
This one?
ROTFLFor a real laugh you should check his whole website : http://www.mother-of-tone.com/index.htm
Now that I look at that, I really see how they shoehorned a CD player into their existing form factor. In my opinion, it looks forced and contrived!
Looks like a Roomba vacuum cleaner.
I had a 212. What a total piece of junk.Don't make come into this thread and be a Philips 212/312 apologist!
GA312 by Mark Hardy, on Flickr
GA312flipsidepartial by Mark Hardy, on Flickr
The Philips GA-212 (and the later 312) has a low mass arm (albeit a somewhat crude/simplistic one, at that) so a high compliance cartridge is needed for best results.
Dollar for dollar (in the US) in their day with an empathetic cartridge, they were hard to beat and were extremely popular. More than a few of us "poor men" referred to them as the "Poor Man's Thorens".
I actually didn't own one, but my first "good"/"modern" (both relative terms!) tt was a Philips GA-308 I purchased used from hifi dealer in Baltimore, MD (ca. 1977). The 308 is quite similar to the 312, but without the fancy FG DC motor belt drive and electric controls. The 308 also had a 10" rather than 12" platter. I loved that little rascal to pieces. It was a good cheap tt, sort of in the AR-XA school (but nicer looking, if not better built).
FULL DISCLOSURE: I do have a 212 in the basement nowadays... someplace.
Scan0014 by Mark Hardy, on Flickr