1927 Victor 10-50 Orthophonic - Sound Quality Test - Video

[Pierce-Arrow]

Hello fellow collectors,

I had this video filed away for some time. I like to share with you. Mechanically restored. Brass reproducer is a reproduction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRx-ij8Wao4

Comments welcome.

Enjoy,

Keith

[melvind]

Very nice sound and a very clean record. I like how well you could still hear the record all the way to the street from the garage.

I opened up the detail on your video and it made me laugh that YouTube identified the song as Schumann's Manfred when in fact it is the aria Amor ti vieta from the opera Fedora by Giordano. Nothing really to do with the video or the purpose of the video. I just found it amusing and shows there are flaws in YouTubes copyright matching software!

[AmberolaAndy]

Hello fellow collectors,

I had this video filed away for some time. I like to share with you. Mechanically restored. Brass reproducer is a reproduction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRx-ij8Wao4

Comments welcome.

Enjoy,

Keith

That’s a nice one Keith. The things that scare me from this model is the pot metal parts in the changer and the not so kind way it rejects records. Plus family members objecting me from having another large machine...and money...that’s the reason I couldn’t get that Borgia II you have.

[phonosandradios]

Looks like a super clean machine you have there and it is surprising just how far the sound does travel! I guess the garage could be acting as an extension to the horn directing the sound down to the street. Also looks like you are having much better weather than we are here - flat grey cloud and cold to boot!

[cheryla]

Very nice

[gramophone-georg]

Hello fellow collectors,

I had this video filed away for some time. I like to share with you. Mechanically restored. Brass reproducer is a reproduction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRx-ij8Wao4

Comments welcome.

Enjoy,

Keith

That’s a nice one Keith. The things that scare me from this model is the pot metal parts in the changer and the not so kind way it rejects records. Plus family members objecting me from having another large machine...and money...that’s the reason I couldn’t get that Borgia II you have.

Victrola Monkey has the pot metal problem pretty well solved with his new brass and aluminum parts. The fascinating thing about these early changers is that they DON'T break- or even really scratch- records. I have both a 10-50 and a 331 Duo record thrower and have yet to lose a record. The second design Victor changer that suspends the records over the turntable and can mix sizes IS a record cruncher, though, so avoid that one in my opinion.

What I like most about the first design (10-50 style) changer is the auto shut off feature after the last record. What I like least is that it only gets tripped by an eccentric stopping groove. The 331 Duo changes all records, but repeats the last one.

None of these changers do well with records that are any more than just slightly warped, and pre 1932 Columbias are pretty much a no go due to circumference and thickness differences.