The improved diaphragm design and material coupled with the new tone arm design was a large part of the improved frequency response. Columbia Viva Tonals and Brunswick Panatropes sound quite nice too, with a definite bass presence, although not as nice a bass sound as on a big Orthophonic machine. Even the Granada that I had which did not have the reentrant horn sounded quite nice.
Ron L -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Cartwright Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 9:20 PM To: 'Antique Phonograph List' Subject: [Phono-L] The New "His Master's Voice" Instrument Was looking at a couple of HMV record sleeves that promote the just introduced electrical recordings (though the term isn't used) & the statement "Listen to the bass!" but instruments illustrated on one of the sleeves are in rather small cabinets with horn openings no larger than pre-Orthophonic Victrolas in comparable sized cabinets, especially the "Table Grand Model (No. 127)" but also the "Cabinet Grand Model (No. 162)." Could these have had somewhat larger folded horns that could come anywhere near to reproducing the bass response of the earliest electrical recordings? If not, how could the listener, "Listen to the Bass!" as the copy writer admonished? (The other sleeve shows a large " 'Re-Entrant' Model (No. 203)" with horn opening filling the entire front of the cabinet which would probably be the HMV equivalent of the Victrola Orthophonic Credenza.) What kind of horns, tonearms & soundboxes were embodied in the HMV No. 127 & 162 & how do these perform when playing earliest electrical recordings? Jim Cartwright IMMORTAL PERFORMANCES, INC "Austin's Eclectic Used Record Store Since 1971" 1404 West 30th Street Austin, Texas 78703-1402 USA (512) 478-9954 E-mail: [email protected] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 3917 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://oldcrank.org/pipermail/phono-l/attachments/20130731/48bd4063/attachm ent.jpe> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 2023 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://oldcrank.org/pipermail/phono-l/attachments/20130731/48bd4063/attachm ent-0001.jpe> _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org
