SOLD: Gold Victor #2 Reproducer $40

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SOLD: Gold Victor #2 Reproducer $40

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Have a Victor #2 reproducer with nice gold and nice back. Could use a new mica diaphragm.
But still plays as is. Have a couple more pictures if you really need them. PM with questions.
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Re: FOR SALE: Gold Victor #2 Reproducer $40

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Curious, is this better to play more expensive records? I remember reading somewhere that the No2 (or 4)was lighter than the exhibition, so when playing more rare records on our Victoria’s to swap the reproducers. Or am I thinking of the No4? Or am I full of crap and dreamed this up :lol:

If so I wouldn’t mind buying this just to have.
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Re: FOR SALE: Gold Victor #2 Reproducer $40

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As to the Exhibition vs. the No. 2, this article is worth a read: http://www.victor-victrola.com/Soundbox%20Article.htm

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Re: FOR SALE: Gold Victor #2 Reproducer $40

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Henry wrote:As to the Exhibition vs. the No. 2, this article is worth a read: http://www.victor-victrola.com/Soundbox%20Article.htm


The article compares the Concert, Exhibition and No. 2. Lot's of variables here but I would say generally there are small improvements from Concert to Exhibition to No. 2, but not major. The No. 4 though is a major improvement for late acoustic and early electric records. For early acoustic records, not much difference there either.

As much as I love playing records on original equipment, for clean, very desirable, "expensive" records modern equipment is the way to go imho. I mean turntable with multiple styli and electric amplification.

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Re: FOR SALE: Gold Victor #2 Reproducer $40

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I use a gold Victrola #2 sound box (much like the one listed here) on a Kent lateral adapter arm for use on an Edison disc machine. I find it sounds great for this purpose. I think it sounds significantly louder and fuller in tone to any of my Exhibitions, but less clear/crisp. Completely subjective, just throwing my opinion out there.

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I've also read this opinion elsewhere, referring to the cleanliness of sound of a good Exhibition. And that no 2, as you've said, was kind of improvement, in bass and volume. But somehow the heavier mechanism, larger diaphragm and sound chamber in the no.2 made it sound deeper and louder, but less crisp than the Exhibition. Someone has said that there's nothing that beats down the sound of a properly rebuilt Exhibition, with adequate steel needle (soft tone the better) playing a Caruso record in good condition.
For this issue much has been written, and still more will be said... It's an interesting and very complex matter that never ceases of amazing us, critical listeners with mechanical minds... Every small variation in mass or compliance of every bit in the mechanical chain producing the sound matters. Subtle changes can kill the sound, or can rise it up until near-perfection... That's clear.
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