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Wow, this is really impressive! You could like fill a theater with music by that. And the attached reproducer does its part in volume too, a truly perfect team!

"Your home BECOMES the speaker...

This is one of the benefits if you are unmarried - you can share your bedroom with a big gramophone

I tried a lot of reproducers with this phonograph, also Columbia Vivatonal, HMV No5b and so on - but the Orthophonic is the best sounding with it.

I would really like to know, how it may sound with a EXPERT soundbox, but they are exorbitant - at least to me.

When the beast is ready, I will restart working on a selfmade soundbox on the base of a almost destroyed HMV No5b - but this is another story...

the sounds are not bad.. actually as they have said, it's good! ... i salute you for doing this great work... I can't do that alone...

What you're aiming for is one of these - this is the first EMG Wilson Horn Conversion Made by Mr Ginn in 1927 - and as you see VERY LOUD It blows most people's socks off !

http://youtu.be/lYFPtmzMCHE

Wonderful machines - but the camera work gives me a headache!

Now I have the next steps ready...

The mouth of the horn is painted. I also put several layers of hard lacquer to the inside of the horn - this gives me a little better treble response.

I also solved the problem how to pick up the sound:

I picked up the sound with two condensor mices: one in front of the horn and a second in the lid of the gramophone - so I get more of the sound like you hear it in the room.

Afterthat I mixed it to mono, and "married" it with the video.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTTr2MdlwRk[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ5J2omnyJA[/youtube]

That sounds Awsome! Great Job!!! This sounds like the way to transcribe 78s, much better sound than any of the modern archive machines, such a balanced sound, good bass, bright and crisp highs, this is how 78s are supposed to sound!

That. Sounds. Fantastic.

Love that second tune, now on my list of records to find!

Indeed, I'm impressed! Great job!

Sean

Superb, and the late records with high volume do bring that horn to its full performance. And well done with the audio capture. Finally someone else who has used microphone at a fixed position!