OMG . . it's almost 50 years since I watched one of these in action . . . whilst at high school I had a Saturday job in the hi-fi department of a record and tv store. The separate stacks, the pickup sensing the disc diameter . . it all comes back . . . I never managed to sell one . . . it was built like a WW2 battleship; and cost nearly as much !
I had no idea that Thorens made an auto changer like this! It's amazing what some of these guys came up with! Thanks for posting the video. These things are more fun to watch than listen to!
Thorens was always a company which produced luxury goods, starting with music boxes and clock movements and then branching out into phonographs. They also at one time produced harmonicas and a variety of rather unique men's accessories, including a wind-up razor and what perhaps was the world's first automatic cigarette lighter.
I used to do repair work on record changers some years ago. I remember working on a Thorens 224. The changing mechanism underneath was a wonder to behold! It was fairly common for the release at the end of the change cycle to cause the tonearm to skip on the lead-in groove as this one appears to do. As I remember it was tricky to get it to work just right.
I look at this and am amazed at how they work. Some say that changers damage records, but simply playing a record damages it! Now what I do is find something that had a cheap changer in it that is not worth repairing, all in ones who have a plastic bit of junk on top. I remove the changer and fabricate a bracket and connectors and drop an entire laptop in its place. One opens it like a record player dust cover, and play music in a far better sound system than any laptop computer has.
At the end of cycle is a rough "click" releasing the mechanism and the tonearm would sometimes skip into the first grooves of the record as this one seems to. I serviced a couple of these years ago and it was touchy to get it just right.
Which Ventures album was that? It sounds very familiar. By the way, that is the coolest turntable I've ever seen... I'm incredibly jealous of you right now. Very nice.
this is nice..im still looking for one myself...its really intrusting how the pickup arm on yours just falls down on the record..then picks it up.and then i see some that actually lowers down to pick up the record the same way it lovers it down on the platter.
I thought my gramdeck tape deck attachment was clever but have seen some really WOW stuff on here like your auto-changer.seen all sorts things pop up like a cartridge similar to an 8 track but with record groves on a plastic tape that you pop on to the player.
Wow!! Dieser Wechsler umgeht alle problematischen Eigenarten der "normalen" Wechsler. Vor allem stimmt bei diesem Gerät die Tonarmhöhe in Bezug auf den richtigen Winkel zur Platte bei allen Platten auf dem Wechsler. Sonst wird ja nur die erste Platte mit den richtigen Einstellungen gespielt, weil der Tonarm ja nicht seine Anbauhöhe mit jeder weiteren LP anhebt. Also keine tödliche Folter für Platte und Stylus. Das dürfte auch die Wiedergabequalität positiv beeinflussen. Echtes HiFi. Richtig geiles Teil /Thorens halt)!!
Wow, I've seen a lot of automatic turntables but not like this one. They must put a lot of thought to construct to construct it.. I'm curious, what year was that table made? I looks elegant, thanks for sharing.
i wish someone would post the last song, boulder to birmingham, starland vocal band...apparently bill and taffi from that band were personal friends of emmylou harris, but all i can find is her doing the song, and i cant find starland vocal band doing the song. help!!!
could the arm be adjusted on these?cause I've seen most of them just fall down on a record like that,would that for safe for 78s? cause it doesn't sound like it would be.....clonk! then picks it up.I've seen a few lower down just like it does before it releases the records on the tale .here's one video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MYqjnr2rG_Q.html
Too many working parts; a traditional spindle with record holder might've been safer. Even the ELAC Miracords and the Technics SL-1350 did it perfectly. (I own the latter.)
Kinda has to be both worlds it all depends on the quality of recording to the media..I have LP's that suck & LP's that are full & excellent sounding... same goes with the CD's
