My Victor III set up with oversized Linenoid horn

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My Victor III set up with oversized Linenoid horn

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This is set up in my parents' dining room, normally sporting it's smooth oak horn and exhibition soundbox. Here you see it with the oversized Linenoid brand horn and no. 4 soundbox recently rebuilt by Orthosean. It sounds great. Soft tone needles provide more than enough volume even in the fairly large dinning room.
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A thing of beauty!

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I have nothing against Victor wood horns (I have a couple of my own), but the aftermarket horns are so much more interesting! That Linenoid looks to be in pristine condition too. Nice!

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Here's a closeup of the machine now sporting my Pathé adapter, rebuilt by Orthosean.
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That Pathé adapter played really LOUD on my L-Door XVI when I was done with it, I can only imagine how loud it must be on that III, I didn't try it on mine!

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Great machine! Amazing that the Linenoid horn survived a century in such great condition.
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OrthoSean wrote:That Pathé adapter played really LOUD on my L-Door XVI when I was done with it, I can only imagine how loud it must be on that III, I didn't try it on mine!

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It is LOUD on the Vic III. The only problem is that most of my good Pathé discs are in Europe.

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A very nice setup. I like the stand also. Assuming it is period?

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FloridaClay wrote:A very nice setup. I like the stand also. Assuming it is period?

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The cabinet is period, Poor design though. When those records slide back too far into the slots it's almost impossible to get them out. That's why it's almost empty. Weighs a ton too even when empty.
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Some details of the horn.
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