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That's cool!

Surprisingly low surface noise

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Thank you for this wonderful video

I have a model 16, but the bottom doors are "L" shaped. It has the owners manual and the pull out shelf that the seller told me is often missing. I bought it in New Hampshire about 25 years ago. The seller had quite a variety of old machines, some of which he demonstrated.

Awesome! Please tell me the name and artist of the last song? Cutie....? Love it👍

I would wager some records cracked or had a hunk fly out with that rough changer!

"Victrola" also exists in name only today, as a brand of cheap Chinese-made "all-in-one" units.

Before the modern high-fidelity era with separate high-end products, which began after World War 2, there was, basically, one line of radios and record players from the major manufacturers, ranging from inexpensive to top-of-the-line. This would, no doubt, have been one of RCA's most expensive units; it would have been found in upper-middle-class and wealthy households.

I bet those hefty tonearms put a few new clicks and pops on every record they played, every time they played it. And I love the gentle treatment of the records lol.

"This nation was suddenly and deliberately attacked..."

THOSE were radios. They had beauty and grandeur.

Deluxe home radios like this one included the old police band, which broadcast in AM. Calling all cars.

Hoagy Carmichael wrote "Stardust" as an uptempo jazz number in the late 1920s. Mitchell Parrish added lyrics later.

RCA was the world leader in electronics for many years; it developed the 45-r.p.m. record, and color television. Today, sadly, it's just a name for low-quality stuff made in China.

When audio equipment was also furniture. RCA was cognizant of the need for equipment to fit room decor, and marketed its products accordingly. For example, it offered the same TV picture tube and chassis in differently-styled cabinets, with different model names.

An incredible machine unlike what is is being manufactured today

Simply a great piece of art and engineering, I loved it with all my heart! How much I would like to have one of this in my home to play my 78s...

Awesome!👍

Was that the last true Victor radio? After that chassis they were RCA I’ve seen the radio chassis and it like nothing else including a large Nipper embossed in the metal

That's just beautiful!!!! Sounds really good and the engineering is incredible.

What a fun collection! I saw that you have a key for one of your players. Love to find one of those for less than first born.

Thats the great late anita oday singing with the swinging gene krupa big band super sound I dig it

Hermosa radio del siglo XX.

Spectacular

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Sensacional!!!!! 🤩🤩🤩🤩

Mine has a different changer - i think it's a model 101?

Its remarkable shellac survived with how violent these changers were back then but the 2 side playback is fantastic to see. Lovely item and well worth putting in your hard work and effort for. Bravo!!!!!!

I thoroughly enjoyed this whole video. I played it while doing a repetitive task at my office at church. (putting labels onto recently burned CDs and then inserting them into envelopes. Fine variety of music styles as well. BTW, Louis Armstrong played high C, high E, and high G at the end of his record. I had never heard this song before.

gorgeous machine. please show us the insides of it.thank u for share

Thank you so much for posting this wonderful video~!! I sold my Model 99, a total project machine, to a well known collector, along with a companion record cabinet. I knew I'd never get it to this fine-tuned status in my lifetime. By the way, Sparton had a pulley-like base, finished in bronze-tone crinkle paint, that the magazine spindle rests in for stacking the records and then inserting into the hanging magazine arm. I had the instruction manual as well, it shows how Sparton offered a record-grooving gizmo to incise an eccentric runout groove into non-eccentric records so they could be made to trip the reject cycle. I also sold a nifty 8 x 10 B&W publicity photo of a Model 99, seems that the marketing minds at Sparton were playing up the fast speed of the Sparton changer cycle. When you have to wait through a Victor 2nd generation changer (think VE-9-54) to cycle through to the next record, you can kind of understand their point. You should be proud of this fine and scarce musical treasure!

Amazing sound! I never knew these sounded so great! Thanks for posting!

Gorgeous! A beautiful piece of Art. ❤

Thank you for posting this great video. What a wonderful machine! Sounds awesome! How do the records hold up after being tossed in the bin?

Stunning. Absolutely stunning !!! I can't even imagine what this cost in 1928. I would be willing to bet more than a really nice new car, at that time !

That is a great oddball changer I've never seen that one,, thanks for posting !! Why did you repost it ??

This is a fabulous machine and an equally wonderful video. Well Done. I have a life long fascination for auto changers and this radio gram certainly is a variation on a theme. How many records can it stack, please? The quality of reproduction is superb. It sports a very intriguing stacking mechanism. On first appearance it appears to be very kind to 78s by not dropping them onto the turntable, rather, the turntable rises to 'catch' the record. But then, by complete contrast, the record is unceremoniously tossed off the turntable. I have seen the latter procedure before and generally the records do not come to any harm. I liked the various shots and was particularly pleased to get an answer to a question which was, how does the machine know when there are no more records to play. With your neat camera action, I saw the 'hooked' lever that will be tapped when a record drops. No tap, the player shuts off. And it was at this point that was most surprising. The pickup pushes the off button. Dual purpose, pickup rest and turn off. I love your video, I watched the marvellously crafted machine, in all its pristine glory, entirely without skipping. Thank you.

Maravilhosa electrola.

I have also the 111. The FM radio has the earliest prewar FM band. I built a post WWII band to prewar band converter and the FM sounds fantastic.

The unit is careful with the records and has a brilliant sound, you can easily mess with modern microgroove records.

I absolutely love Billie Holiday.

I've never seen a Columbia Q Graphophone with a badly bent mandrel shaft as this one has. And apparently it still plays! The cylinder mandrel should be almost perfectly level (of course accounting for the taper). This mandrel hangs down on the right side suggesting that the mandrel shaft has been bent. Amazing that it plays!

How many records have you broken, that’s a little rough.

A true work of mechanical art, the size of the motor is insane, the speed is perfect.

Fabulous restoration job and great sound! Not for playing very valuable 78's though!

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😮I Spit out my Coffee When I Saw that Changer Fling the Fragile Disk Into That Chute😮🦅💝💥😭💀

78 rpm format was way better than most people can imagine. If played with real diamond stylus not just steel needles they can last forever. I have some that were in my house as a kid that still lay good, have Django Reinhardt record that was my aunt’s that is so worn you can hardly hear it.