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BUMP - FADA Tone Arm Unit No. 193 A - don't know much about this, but it looks interesting! $8 Shipping
Allan

Appears to plug into a radio so you can use your phonograph's horn as the speaker.

52089 wrote:Appears to plug into a radio so you can use your phonograph's horn as the speaker.

Give that man a cigar, he is right!

I wonder if you could use it with a Cygnet horn so you could play your radio through it?edisonplayer

edisonplayer wrote:I wonder if you could use it with a Cygnet horn so you could play your radio through it?edisonplayer

It might or might not fit exactly, but you could easily fix that in a non-destructive way with a bit of rubber. I have an Edison Cygnet connected to a huge radio driver (maybe from a PA system, it's so large) with a stack of rubber hose washers inside the large-diameter fitting. Combined with a 14" speaker in a huge floor cabinet my Grandpa built, it makes an awesome system for my many-tubed amplifier.

With this particular unit, you'd likely need an inexpensive audio transformer, to convert modern 8-ohm output to what is surely the 1000-2000 ohms this is wound for. I'd buy it, except for having several already