Drip Pan Gem w/ Carriage-Integrated Reproducer

[RolandVV-360]

Has anyone on the forum ever seen or owned a Drip-pan Gem with the carriage-integrated reproducer? I'm curious as to how it sounds, and also how well it plays in general.

[Kent in KC]

Mine sounds and plays almost as well as my other GEMs which is not exactly outstanding

[outune]

Here's a link to Steve Andersun's Drip Pan that was a Featured Phono awhile back-- This machine had belonged to a friend of mine. I cleaned it up for him and sold it to Steve for him at the Charlotte Show a few years back-- Definitely the nicest one I have ever worked on.

http://forum.talkingmachine.info/viewto ... =2&t=16215

Brad Abell

[Fonotone]

It sounds horrible unless the reproducer has been rebuilt, in which case it just sounds really bad.

[PeterF]

Dr. Medved put the proper glass diaphragm into mine, and worked ever so hard to make it sound ok, but it's just plain awful. In a nice authentic way.