The No.4 reproducer was made for those who could not afford to update to the new Orthophonic machines so they could buy and enjoy the electrically recorded records.
> From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 05:10:01 -0400 > Subject: Re: [Phono-L] The New "His Master's Voice" Instrument > > 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? > > > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.org _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org
