Cool, funky machine ????

[brianu]

THANK YOU dean for uploading the actual photo to the board. the filtering software on the computer I'm usually using when reading through these threads tends to for whatever reason block these images from showing up (unless they've been uploaded directly - I think the software blocks access to filesharing sites like photobucket, etc.).

[phonophan79]

Just for fun...

[brianu]

my parents actually have that model brunswick - less distinguished, of course, given that theirs retains the banal original mahogany finish... it's actually a great machine with a decent sound and reliable motor.

[phonophan79]

One of the nicer ones... at a good price too. I still don't want it, but better than "shabby chic".

[Zeppy]

Oh certainly! But have you ever heard anyone here say anything spontaniously good about one?

Actually, I have nothing but good things to say about a X, and do spontaniously...well, not quite spontaniously....usually if you start spontaniously talking about Victrolas, people might start to think you're funny in the head.

But anyway, my first Victor was a very common X. I loved that machine (I owned a beat up Columbia before that, but never quite got it up and running properly and sold it when I got the VV-X. Found it in an antique shop in central PA, and had to have. Had it for several years. When I eventually upgraded to a XVI, I couldn't stand to sell it. Ended up giving it to a very good friend of my as a Christmas present. Now he loves it. He has not interest in collecting, and is quite happy with his machine. What I liked most about the X is that is what most of us would probably have owned if we were alive at the time. It was the talking machine of the common man. And there's dignity in that.

Just my two bits. I'll step down from my soap box now.

Oh...and I like the hump backs too....although I never owned own.