23-02-2016, 11:09 PM
I've had loads of record players over the years.
My first and only new record player was a Fidelity HF42 - my Dad bought me it from Woolworths for just under £20. Prior to that, the only record player in the house was my Mum's Hacker GP42 with Garrard SP25 Mk.III single-play turntable.
I acquired more record players from jumble sales, usually the Dansette suitcase types. My first stereo record player was a Readers Digest Stereo 2000 made by Wye Electronics Ltd. I bought that from a secondhand shop for £12 and later sold it. Looked exactly like this one: http://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/showt...p?t=107505
Nowadays I have a couple of Amerex and Lloytron music centres from the '70s with BSR turntable just like the Readers Digest one, plus radio and 8-track tape deck. The Lloytron 8-track is recordable - you can copy records or radio to 8-track tape if you want to.
I also have a Sanyo G2615N-2 briefcase music centre (turntable, cassette and radio), a Panasonic SG-555L "ghetto blaster" with pop-out record deck, a Dansette Major and a Hacker GP42 of my own, with Garrard autochanger that can be a bit temperamental. I have another Fidelity HF42 portable record player that I pulled off the tip several years ago, but the cartridge is faulty and a new BSR X5M cartridge will cost more than the player is worth.
The smallest and most unusual record player I have is the Bush Discassette DC70. It's slot-loading and only plays 7 inch records and cassettes. A novelty item - sound quality isn't it's strong point. Come to think of it, none of my record players are really hi-fi. The closest I have is an Ion USB turntable.
Finally I have a couple of wind-up portable gramophones - HMV 101 and Columbia 204E. Definitely not hi-fi but great fun.
Mark: The price of Hacker and Dansette record players has shot up recently. Might be worth restoring your Hacker sooner rather than later.
My first and only new record player was a Fidelity HF42 - my Dad bought me it from Woolworths for just under £20. Prior to that, the only record player in the house was my Mum's Hacker GP42 with Garrard SP25 Mk.III single-play turntable.
I acquired more record players from jumble sales, usually the Dansette suitcase types. My first stereo record player was a Readers Digest Stereo 2000 made by Wye Electronics Ltd. I bought that from a secondhand shop for £12 and later sold it. Looked exactly like this one: http://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/showt...p?t=107505
Nowadays I have a couple of Amerex and Lloytron music centres from the '70s with BSR turntable just like the Readers Digest one, plus radio and 8-track tape deck. The Lloytron 8-track is recordable - you can copy records or radio to 8-track tape if you want to.
I also have a Sanyo G2615N-2 briefcase music centre (turntable, cassette and radio), a Panasonic SG-555L "ghetto blaster" with pop-out record deck, a Dansette Major and a Hacker GP42 of my own, with Garrard autochanger that can be a bit temperamental. I have another Fidelity HF42 portable record player that I pulled off the tip several years ago, but the cartridge is faulty and a new BSR X5M cartridge will cost more than the player is worth.
The smallest and most unusual record player I have is the Bush Discassette DC70. It's slot-loading and only plays 7 inch records and cassettes. A novelty item - sound quality isn't it's strong point. Come to think of it, none of my record players are really hi-fi. The closest I have is an Ion USB turntable.
Finally I have a couple of wind-up portable gramophones - HMV 101 and Columbia 204E. Definitely not hi-fi but great fun.
Mark: The price of Hacker and Dansette record players has shot up recently. Might be worth restoring your Hacker sooner rather than later.
