What's Your July 4th Phono Project(s)?
Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 8:56 pm
How many of you guys spent the Independence Day for a phono project?
I am working on the Brunswick Panatrope portable I purchased on eBay lasy week. Although it was advertized as working and the seller posted a demo video, I simply could not make it work. The spindle position was wrong and caused the turntable touching the auto-brake. I opened the case and to my surprise, the governor only had one weight and spring left. The first problem was solved after I reassembled the gears. The second problem was also solved easily as I have some Brunswick spare parts from my last project.
The Panatrope reproducer looks OK but in my several tests, it had trouble handling soprano high notes. I am still trying to figure out what's wrong.
The followings are the videos I made with the Panatrope portable:
[youtubehq]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7kn9Ms0A6A[/youtubehq]
[youtubehq]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTaRRO6BsXw[/youtubehq]
I am working on the Brunswick Panatrope portable I purchased on eBay lasy week. Although it was advertized as working and the seller posted a demo video, I simply could not make it work. The spindle position was wrong and caused the turntable touching the auto-brake. I opened the case and to my surprise, the governor only had one weight and spring left. The first problem was solved after I reassembled the gears. The second problem was also solved easily as I have some Brunswick spare parts from my last project.
The Panatrope reproducer looks OK but in my several tests, it had trouble handling soprano high notes. I am still trying to figure out what's wrong.
The followings are the videos I made with the Panatrope portable:
[youtubehq]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7kn9Ms0A6A[/youtubehq]
[youtubehq]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTaRRO6BsXw[/youtubehq]
