The HMV 162 (and others) had a sheet metal "saxophone" horn - it ran down
to the bottom of the cabinet & then back up to the horn grille. There's a
photo on this page:
http://forum.talkingmachine.info/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2906&start=10 ...
The 203 Re-Entrant horn was also made of sheet metal, which gave it a
high-frequency response advantage over the rough wooden Victor Orthophonic
type horns.
If you can access YooToob, search for the different model numbers & you
should find some demonstrations. Most seem to have had the No.4
reproducer, so they won't be quite up to the Orthophonic standard.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Cartwright" <[email protected]>
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?
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