Robust Machines (Victor Machines)

[JerryVan]

To be perfectly honest, now that I think of it, since I got my Brunswick Cortez, I haven't played my Victors at all. The Cortez works just as well with acoustics as it does with electrics. It's the Swiss army knife of phonographs and it's built every bit as good as my Victors... better perhaps.

Me too.

[jeeprod]

I use a humble Victor 4-3 to play electrically recorded 78s on, any older 78s I use an adapter to play them on my Edison A-150. The adapter has a bigger diaphragm then the victor
reproducers, and the A-150 has a much bigger horn than the same era Victors.

[mattrx]

My VV 8-35 gets the most use (mainly electrically recorded records) followed by my Vic V for acoustic records. Third is the 8-9 which sounds about like the 8-35 but only has a 2 spring motor, so you have to wind more often. On the road? The HMV 102. Love the style and sound of that machine.

If the goal is an entry level machine to play most every day and get good sound for the money, its hard to go wrong with a VV-VI. It was the first machine I bought years ago, and I still play it rather often. Great little machine.

Matt