My Dream Turntable!!! In Depth With The ANABAS GP-N3R 

I never realized that I needed a wall mounted turntable; but now I've seen it . . .

I recollect as a kid having a portable turntable we used to play when out in the garden in the late 60's. It was very similar to these.

As Mat might say... "Flippin' 'eck!" Nice one Fran! 😉

I saw one of those back in 1969 on my 6th grader year. The girl who owned it played a 45 with the song Aquarius by The Fifth Dimensions. This was a classic turn table playing a classic song. The sound is great. Thanks. Fran for this video on a classic portable record player.

It would be true that you are friends with Matt at Techmon, you are a technical nerd like the rest of us. It's cool that you 2 share the same passions and have content that inspires each other. Really good stuff!

I’m glad the video proved handy - and thanks for the tour of the interior. You’re right about the clips gripping the original GP3 headshell - although on the old version I had they did it with the enthusiasm of a rigged fairground grabber machine.

Fran is now my new favorite to listen to fall asleep. No your not boring. Just a nice voice and doing things I like to listen to. Dear Fran can you tie some of these together so that I can put it on a loop and just listen to you for a couple of hours.

What a cool turntable! I hope it brings you good luck in your future vinyl hunts!

I’m bringing my battery powered Sesame Street turntable next time I go to the record store!

I'm very impressed that it sounds so good for being a portable vinyl player!

I miss my Close and Play phonograph, this vid took me back Fran

Love you, science and rock. Enjoy your info and style.

Honestly, one of your best vids, ever, Fran! Especially the out with the Philly music. Very classy, indeed.

Wow! Fran opened the “Way Back Machine” with that Mike Douglas record

It looks pretty well made, sounds pretty good too. I think it will definitely be fit for your purpose.

This brings back some memories from my childhood in the eighties. My friend used to bring this exact looking player over from time to time. It had English controls, but other than that it was exactly the same, color and everything.

"It's all toys" Love it So true. Keep up the good work Fran.

I am so impressed with the stereo playback and the tone balance of this little turntable. Wow! I was not expecting that from a portable. The fact that it has an Audio-Technica cart on it is impressive. At first I was cringing, remembering how my little childhood suitcase portable just wore out so many records as a kid with the nasty cartridges/stylus. But this looks like they put some thought into the design. Very cool! Thanks, Fran!

Fran, thank you for awesome content it made me smile .

I’m really pleased you know mr Techmoan, I was hoping you’d know each other’s work. Two of my favourite youtubers.

That's clever. That 45 made me feel like I was shopping in a mall at Christmastime, cool. One could bring it along with a couple albums on a picnic too!

That was a really clever fix Fran, and didn't look too bad either. 👍👍

My goodness, my brain could not reconcile the performance with the appearance. Great torque tip. Cheers for showing me something that I did not know existed.

Nice job Fran, I'm all about modifying things in my life to work better for my use. Love it

I ordered mine 5/18 and it arrived yesterday 5/30. I bought a step down transformer to convert 120v to 100v and it's working great. I'll be taking it to work and hanging it on the wall.

I bought one due to Techmoan's positive review and it's due any day now. I'm glad you showed what's inside as I was considering modifying it to have line outputs and it may be more challenging than I originally thought. I may still have a semi-educated probe around at some point with a CRO to see what my chances are.

Just beat me over the head with that nostalgia.

Classic Fran Lab, coolest amplified stereo turtable ever.

Not seen a turntable like this before. However liken the simple entering in 8t despite it little technical niggles that you fixed. Awesome video.

I am pleasantly surprised at the quality of what is essentially a retro-nostalgia reproduction. If I were still into vinyl, I would consider one of these.

When I was a child a neighbor asked me to fix one of those circa 1968-1970, it just needed new batteries, It ALSO had a radio in it, I tuned in an oldies station or oldies show, and I heard a song I wasn't sure if I'd heard before, but it was obviously early-mid 1960s, it was a guitar instrumental and it was THE GREATEST TUNE EVER. Years later I heard it and learned the title was Pipeline by The Chantays.

What a neat portable record player , it's really retro looking for coming from Japan, playing records at the park or the beach sounds like fun! 👍😎

Wow! That's a really impressive little record player. I wish I had one. I imagine that you get full hi-fi stereo out of the phone jack too. Great review.

And round and round it goes :) Nice find!

O-rings on the clips for the stylus. No epoxy required. Friction fit, experiment with a few different sizes.

I just ordered one of these off of ebay from japan with free shipping. Can't wait for it to arrive, I got it for teh exact reason you stated at the start of teh video.. and here I thought I was being unique getting for record buying... hahha

That "Philadelphia" song is a real toe tapper!!! In all seriousness, I like it a lot!!!

Really enjoyed the closing song!

An o ring might hold that 45 adapter from being lost

Maybe using two short rubbergrommets (tubes) on the two upstanding plastik parts will clamp the arm enough to hold its position´. A small felt inside to protect the needle and voila! Nice to see you soo excited! Have fun fran

Sounds Of Philadelphia! Great video Fran.

I love the old analog designs! The high quality MM cartridge is a definite improvement over what would have been in place originally. I'm not sure I understand why you had to modify the adaptor, but the foam certainly did the trick!

You could take it on the ISS... As a child, I had a AM radio/ turntable combo shaped like a bug...around 1974. Ran on 4 D batteries, as I recall. 45 and 33 1/3. I've had very good luck with NiCads and Nimh batteries over the years. Zero leakage , and I have some 30+ year old NiCads that are just fine I had no idea these were still made. Cool video!

When I was a kid in the early 60's my friend brought one to school and played some C.C.R. music on it at recess.

thank you for your love of life!

WPRB one of the best college radio stations, WKDU, KTUH, also in the lineup, Aloha Fran !

Had one like it, only blue and plugged into wall. Used to play 78 kids songs and my mothers Elvis 45s.

I used to be a ("Vinyl Head" with"Stacks Of Wax")so to speak until 8 track/cassette tapes replaced them. That really brings back the memories of the "Ole tone arm cobra" a term from an episode of the TV Show "M.A.S.H".

Those six big D batteries, rétro in its own right 😃👍

Fran thank you for the amazing outro!! When I was a child I was so obsessed with turntables that I fabricated one out of a pizza box just so I can pretend :-) now I’m 50 years old and I have a beautiful vintage turntable so I don’t have to pretend anymore!!

Cool! I used to have the Radio Shack Lady Bug portable record player...loved it....now they sell vintage ones for $200+

Pretty cool, especially for trying out 45s!

When I was a kid back in the 70's and 80's I had some crazy ideas. I tried to figure out some way to save TV shows on cassette tapes. I knew there had to be some way to do it but could never figure out how to separate out the channel frequency. I had another idea for making record players portable so you could take your music with you. I learned that if you attach a 9 volt battery to an AC/DC transformer and touch the other end it can shock the crap out of you. And I had this crazy idea of using space craft with wings that could land at airfields instead of rockets that come down in the water with parachutes. I also invented this thing I called Windows on my 8 bit Color Computer. You could run multiple processes simultaneously in different windows that you could drag around on the screen and resize and change background colors. You could even give each process more or less CPU priority. Just a crazy idea that was fun to tinker around with.

I'm a Record collector, this is awesome ♥

So cool, grew up in Northeast Philly, thanks.

I am sitting here like a kid in amazement. Ha. Then it dawned on ME it's a toy record player man!. It's her explanation that draws you in. 🤓🤓

I have a Crosley that I've adapted with a battery pack that is like a little suit case but it has stereo capability and it works just great for this . 2 tone arm lock downs that makes it almost bullet proof . I also never buy before testing . I have lots of 78,s if your interested also ! People rock out at garage sales if I turn it up to high and that has cost me a few records !

What an incredibly efficient design. I was going to suggest that you transport the player with an old 45, and that clip for vertical operation. You have to have it sorted.

I have a question , I think you might be the person to ask. I have one of these that is tracking at almost 6 grams which freaks me out. I only play 45's on it , but of course do not want to damage them. Do you think there might be a clever way to lessen the tracking force?

Frantastic. 😃

I'm a collector, this will be a great tool when I go bin diving.

Cool video....I'm a marine engineer and fellow nerd...damn glad to meet you

I was very surprised when you said the cartridge was magnetic. I expected a ceramic, then when you mentioned the $300 price tag I thought it better be magnetic! I was also surprised to see one DIP chip. I guess I'm not dead yet. This would be quite an upgrade from the portable I had in the 60's. The last surprise was that a Japanese product is made in China now. I guess it shouldn't be that much of a surprise though.

DUAL turntables operated on the same principle for tonearm pressure. I had one in the sixties. You could tilt it up and it played just fine.

Back in the day I had two older step-brothers and when they were both gone I would get a very similar record player from one and the new Beatles White LP from the other and listen to them out in back woods fort that I made. That was just around the time when the older one decided to go college for medicine to avoid the Vietnam Draft.

I received one for my 6th birthday (1969). It looked almost identical and had a radio too. Should have kept it. It is deceiving. You wouldn't think it could hold a full LP, but it does.

5:25 So you are saying that this is the record player to take to outer space then? got it.

Cool thumbs up

My grandfather had a battery operated turn table when I was a child growing up in the 1970's living 30 miles out in the High Desert of California.. We had nothing to do so my sister, and I would play one record we had on a battery operated turntable, and that was johnny cash.. I remember one day we were playing the record, and my grandfather asked my sister if he could see the record for a second.. My sister took the record off, and handed it to him, and he snapped it over his leg a couple times, and said he just could not take hearing a boy named sue one more time.. I look back on this today, and I can't really blame the man.. lololololol..

Looks Like you can hang that in both Portrait and Landscape (obviously not at the same time :) ) as there's another keyhole slot just under the center of the handle. Mike Douglas. Man that brings back memories.

On the issue of the stylus arm sitting in the recess. Another easy and cheap thing you could do, would be to add in small velcro strip like that you can use for cabling. I think it could be routed through the holes in the case that is under each of those clip extensions that aren't actually be used?

My "friends" bought me one to take to Vietnam in 1966. I played part of one record - Sgt Pepper. It ended up being my Albatross and after carrying it for nearly a year, a "stray" bullet ended it. Memory Flogger.

If that was the sound of this unit straight off the Vinyl from this unit, it sounded very good indeed. that little adapter reminded me of the Radiation Tri-Foil if that is what they are called. Nice to see it play on the side like that as well.

cool - and ya, it fooled me cause it does sound surprisingly good!

4.5 grams is very heavy for the AT3600L... Other than that, this is neat! :)

That is a use case I'd not have thought of!

Does seem to sound good enough. Thanks Fran.

Groovy, Baby!!! ;-)

Fran, if you do - do the mods - please, could you put up a part 2 video? Thanks!!

Very cool made

I had a red white and blue one that was the coolest.

Had an original as a child... ( Imagaes On Google) Shared with my two sisters... The plastic tone arm just snapped into place with a plastic bracket, very similar to this modern model, only with plastic clips on each side of the bracket, that held the tone arm into place... No protective cover over the needle. And it was not able to play a record sitting on its side... Thats New! Blessings James...

The sound quality is really good! Also this record is really well kept. No clicks or pops.

Excellent review and tecnical analysis of this turntable. I love the precision of the way you describe things. Just wish there was more manufacturing other than just China for these types of devices. PHILADELPHIA! PHILADELPHIA!

Hi,. The sent a golden disc with information on earth in the Voyager to space. Did they also include a turn table and manual on how to operate in order to get the Earth message?

I think that the felt on the battery tray lid is to prevent the plastic from vibrating when sound is applied to the speaker

Great video. The MM cartridge alone would rate this unit above Crosleys. Handy tip with the screws too.

Yeah these little guys are great for going to Arbutus.

Looks like a decent piece of kit for the price to test record out, the mode was a good idea.

Ohhh this is also one of my very first portable turntable back then! it was very cute but the cartridge pressure were too heavy, it easly damages grooves on vinyls as well.. also there some more smaller toy version of these so you should check those out as well!! I think it only plays like 3 or 4 inch records (which is only contains track within 1 or 2 minutes as i remember...)

When I was a kid, I had a portable record player which had a slot on the top that you slid records into. I guess one of those could have been useful at record fairs etc.

Impressive

Well, if they didn’t sell out after Techmoan’s review, they sure will now! I wonder what the reaction would be at our local used record shop if I showed up with one of these. 😂

Learning more engaged.

What a brilliant idea for it using it for record markets or shops. Now I want one for myself. Hahahaha

YES!!!

If you get the right adapter for the barrel power jack you should be able to run this off a USB power bank, like the ones used for charging cell phones on the go. I've done this on one of my portables and its so nice not to have to hunt down and replace the batteries.

5 grams seems high for a mag cartridge, although perfectly in line for a ceramic, which is what the original had. I wonder why they went with a mag for this reproduction, especially since it requires extra amplification and EQ.

You are SO COOL!! 😎

9:15 Maybe 3D print a vaguely U -shaped plastic bit that goes under the cartridge , where one of the vertical legs is longer and has a circular pivot hole down the center of it. Then add a twist-latch that can be closed over the tonearm. Something where the bottom of the U is squared off and can easily be glued into the existing hole