Listening tubes

briankeith · Post by **briankeith** » Mon Apr 08, 2013 4:10 pm

Seems like a lot of money - has anyone here bought one of his repro listening tubes with a built in voluum control ?? Item number: 200910111587 (he sells these on EBay) They look too modern to me?

kirtley2012 · Post by **kirtley2012** » Mon Apr 08, 2013 4:15 pm

they are acctually made of a modified stethoscope!

briankeith · Post by **briankeith** » Mon Apr 08, 2013 4:40 pm

R U sure Kirtley ??

phonogal · Post by **phonogal** » Mon Apr 08, 2013 5:27 pm

Sure looks like a stethoscope to me too. Just pull off the head and add the volume control. Cheapo stethoscopes run about $15.00.

phonogfp · Post by **phonogfp** » Mon Apr 08, 2013 5:39 pm

Yep - stethoscope. You can buy far more authentic looking ear tubes from Jean-Paul Agnard for ¼ the price of the stethoscope. Jean-Paul will be at the Wayne show this weekend.

George P.

Retrograde · Post by **Retrograde** » Mon Apr 08, 2013 5:48 pm

The volume control looks a wee bit like a sphygmomanometer valve.

estott · Post by **estott** » Mon Apr 08, 2013 6:12 pm

Definitely a reworked stethoscope.

edisonphonoworks · Post by **edisonphonoworks** » Mon Apr 08, 2013 9:15 pm

http://www.ebay.com/itm/EDISON-FIRESIDE ... 2ec75ed033

Yes reworked stethoscope. This has vinyl tubing. If you can find the kind with the Y shaped metal part, you could use the white rubber tubing that most of us are familiar with, the original listening tube parts were Gutta Percha. However I am sure they work well. I would not use though listening tubes with a Diamond B, I onetime used a DB meter in the horn of an Amberola machine and it was reading 100 DB on the loud passage of Over The Waves, by the New York Military band on a flat ended BA.

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