As always, a great video...you're such a talented teacher Norman! Sometime - when you've got nothing better to do - I would love to see you teach a series on the construction of a single tube HAM transmitter. I think it would be a great companion piece to your excellent crystal radio series...some of the best teaching on the subject! All the best to you and yours Norman! -Cliff
@Parlophonic
5 жыл бұрын
Way over my head, but whatever you say tends to draw one in to observe what's going on and you make it so understandable. What a talent!
@MrSpengler1234
4 жыл бұрын
3:12 For reference the black and orange sockets are for rear surround and subwoofer/centre.
@bixanorak
4 жыл бұрын
Many thanks for the info! Cheers & stay safe... Norman.
@BrokeMoFo
5 жыл бұрын
I wish I would have made a list of the vast collection of radios that had come up for auction at a local venue 3 years ago.. I had made the auction on the third day of the liquidation and was astonished at the 1/3rd of and acre lot of tubes, radios, parts, speakers, et al... Not mentioning the comments of patrons of the sale that stated time and again to me "You should of seen it the first day"! According to the auctioneer the estate was nothing but antique radios, horns, parts, sets..etc . etc... I was disgusted that I had not found out about it far sooner... I saw an early prototype speaker go for 1400 dollars U.S. .... and even heard murmurs that the particular item was worth 1800 or more in the crowd given the "right" buyer... I am a novice and have a basic understanding of the hobby, but admit I am an avid watcher of your vids, thank you sir for your time and knowledge...
@skycarl
5 жыл бұрын
Great info Norman. Always enjoy all your vids brother.
@dogsbody49
5 жыл бұрын
Wow!. Thanks so much for taking the trouble to do this video for me. I have never been mentioned on KZitem before.! It is easy to connect once you know how. I use audacity so am familiar with audio software. I will let you know how I get on. I have an HMV 157 so will have to jury rig the tone arm as the pick up connector is the same diameter as the tone arm. Once again many thanks for you kindness. Chris from the good old Isle of Wight!
@roybo1930
4 жыл бұрын
Norman! Thank You! This is what I ask for back some time! This is AWESOME!
@RWBHere
5 жыл бұрын
Looks as though you are in need of a cheap audio oscilloscope... There should be suitable software which would be able to make your PC display waveforms with accurate voltage and decibel levels. Audacity displays the latter, and could fulfil your needs, providing that you can match the impedances closely enough. Incidentally, and since you mentioned the name, sound systems on fairground rides are still sometimes referred to as 'Panatropes' by the more traditional fairground families. 'The Panatrope killed off the fairground organ' is still a current lament. The old Brunswick name lives on! Thanks Norman.
@HD7100
4 жыл бұрын
Excellent video. I believe the other two sockets may be digital or surround sound.
@RWBHere
5 жыл бұрын
Listened it again today, with better speakers. Thanks again, Norman. Is it worthwhile adding some equalisation to a record and pickup of that vintage? If so, then what do you normally use? You mentioned Audacity. It is the go-to, cross-platform audio-editing application here, and is being used in various flavours of Linux and MacOS. Audacity can also convert tracks to mono, as well as edit clicks. You can also zoom in very closely and edit out noise manually. Various bandpass and notch filters, plus graphic equalisers with different capabilities are also available. One feature which is in use here twice every week for processing spoken audio, is the ability to select and amplify sections of audio semi-automatically, meaning that a suggested amplification level is pre-selected. You can choose to allow clipping, which it does very softly, to over-ride the suggested amplification level. You can also insert silence, remove general noise very nicely. Some very good results can be obtained, even with mediocre sound sources. One which worked very well was the processing of a cylinder recording of a banjo and guitar duet, which, after editing, had almost no audible noise, and a very true sound (for the technology) of the instruments, and with no audible processing artefacts. One trick used for that was to sample out the noise, then invert it, and add it back into the audio. That worked extremely well, with no audible detriment to the music. Shall try to find it, and send it to you later, if your e-mail address from last year is still valid.
@johnsweda2999
4 жыл бұрын
Hi Norman I wonder if you could answer me this question ? is it safe to use WD-40 on Bakelite and if Bakelite is exposed to WD40 for a long periods of time does it damage the Bakelite, do you know thanks.
@jhonwask
4 жыл бұрын
Where do you find all these pickups?
@davidlogansr8007
4 жыл бұрын
John Wascavage I would like to know that as well! I have never seen one “in the wild “ as they say, in my stomping grounds of Maryland and Pennsylvania. Best Regards as always! David
@RWBHere
5 жыл бұрын
Long time, no hear. Are you O.K., Norman?
@bixanorak
5 жыл бұрын
Hi there - very nice of you to write! Yes, we're fine - hope you're the same; we've had a couple of quite big projects. A wax disc 'home recorder', vertical cut, from about 1925, and also we knocked up another electric cylinder player, which 'sorta' works OK. Both of these deserve a video - must get round to it! We've also being doing some smaller projects, like early microphones - really like the David Hughes 'carbon pencil' mike. Just needs really fine adjustement to set it up OK. All the best for now, take care, Norman.
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