Re: Slight buzzing from reproducer.
Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2025 11:24 pm
Nice!
These late Paillard reproducers are a marvel, although, for my taste, I find them too powerful and a little bouncing on the bass, but this makes their sound very funny with certain records. They are, in the other hand, a bit harder on records than others, due to the small compliance of their needlebar fulcrum system and high lever ratio, a bit abusing on records. For me (others have different opinions) the best reproducers, in sound and overall performance, and less wear on records, are the orthophonic style Victors or HMVs (5a and 5b). You should try to get one of these.
Paillard made these diaphragms in the 1930s and early 1940s and sold them to many gramophone makers under their brand, looks this you've got, labelled Mayfair, which was a British brand of gramophones.
But your portable... does it have a brand name in any other place than on the soundbox front plaque?
More photos would be illustrative for us to see it... The motor or whatever details...
These late Paillard reproducers are a marvel, although, for my taste, I find them too powerful and a little bouncing on the bass, but this makes their sound very funny with certain records. They are, in the other hand, a bit harder on records than others, due to the small compliance of their needlebar fulcrum system and high lever ratio, a bit abusing on records. For me (others have different opinions) the best reproducers, in sound and overall performance, and less wear on records, are the orthophonic style Victors or HMVs (5a and 5b). You should try to get one of these.
Paillard made these diaphragms in the 1930s and early 1940s and sold them to many gramophone makers under their brand, looks this you've got, labelled Mayfair, which was a British brand of gramophones.
But your portable... does it have a brand name in any other place than on the soundbox front plaque?
More photos would be illustrative for us to see it... The motor or whatever details...