Re: Polly Portable and Pathé Actuelle
Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2018 3:05 pm
I traveled with George Epple to a friend's house yesterday and asked him some questions and found that he has a Lumiere, Actuelle, and a Polly. He said in his opinion the ranking in order of quality of sound is in that order Lumiere best Polly poorest. I also found out that the outside perimeter of the diaphragms of the first two are attached to or restrained by the frame in the first two which should increase the natural frequencies (fundamentals and harmonics) of these two. George has been an active collector of phonographs since his teens.
Allen
Allen