What's in your audio closet ?

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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited February 2006
    I believe that as well... All were probably Matsushitas...
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  • heiney9
    heiney9 Posts: 25,198
    edited February 2006
    audiobliss wrote:
    A turn table that would skip tracks like CDP? :eek:

    I'm curious..

    A company called Accutrac made a table that you could program like a cdp and also had a remote control. It worked by sensing, perhaps by laser, the gaps inbetween songs. It worked most of the time but albums like Yes or Rush with very long songs and quiet passages confused it sometimes.

    EDIT: I believe Accutrac was made by ADC (Audio Dynamic Corp.) Certainly not high end, but a solid 70's-80's TT idea.

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  • heiney9
    heiney9 Posts: 25,198
    edited February 2006
    Here's a link to an Accutrac 4000, a teacher of mine in High School had one at the time I thought it was cool. He had the TT in a closet and the remote module out in the listening room and he could program the TT from there

    http://cgi.ebay.com/1979-ACCUTRAC-Turntable-Phonograph-Ad-Multi-Play-1104_W0QQitemZ6576460042QQcategoryZ1442QQcmdZViewItem

    http://cgi.ebay.com/Rare-ADC-turntable-w-remote-alt-to-marantz-mcintosh_W0QQitemZ5863227850QQcategoryZ48649QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

    H9
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited February 2006
    Now that you mention it, I remember the Accutrac as well (a model, not a company). Saw that ad in Stereo Review (and probably still have the issue).

    ADC was Japanese as well wasn't it?
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited February 2006
    That's very interesting. I had a Sansui TT that was linear (if by 'linear' you mean the arm didn't pivot from a corner but rather stuck straight out from the back and moved back and forth as it reads the record). A friend and I weren't sure if it was in working order and it needed a needle, so I just got rid of it. I have no idea if it skipped tracks like that, though. Seemed to be farily well-built as it was pretty heavy. Almost wish I had it back, now.
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  • heiney9
    heiney9 Posts: 25,198
    edited February 2006
    Tour2ma wrote:
    Now that you mention it, I remember the Accutrac as well (a model, not a company). Saw that ad in Stereo Review (and probably still have the issue).

    ADC was Japanese as well wasn't it?

    ADC was a division of BSR consumer products which the ad says is copyrite in New York. Not sure if they were Japanese or not and too lazy right now to Google it :p .

    H9
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited February 2006
    ^ I did Google and didn't find much more. I know dbx ended up Japanaese, and ADC and dbx were tied together at some point...
    audiobliss wrote:
    (if by 'linear' you mean the arm didn't pivot from a corner but rather stuck straight out from the back and moved back and forth as it reads the record)
    Yes, that's a linear tracking tone arm.
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  • 2+2
    2+2 Posts: 546
    edited February 2006
    I can confirm that Sansui did have a linear tracking one with a little laser sensor that you can skip to the next song....was my dad's....Probably sitting in his closet somewhere...
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  • scottnbnj
    scottnbnj Posts: 709
    edited February 2006
    i didn't dig out the tt, but i found the model #. it's fr-d55. it looks something like this:

    http://www.sansui.us/images/Turntables/FRD55_1.jpg

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  • scottnbnj
    scottnbnj Posts: 709
    edited February 2006
    audiobliss wrote:
    I have no idea if it skipped tracks like that, though.

    were i found the pic above there were a lot of other sansui tt pics. if it had a sensor anything like mine, you probably would have remembered it. it was in little plastic casing attached to the headshell.

    anyway, here's the link:

    http://www.sansui.us/Turntables.htm

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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited February 2006
    scott,
    I don't think the FRD-55 you intially posted was progammable (not a linear tracker).

    But looks like a few of the "P" models at the bottom of the Sansui page are.
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited February 2006
    Going from memory here, I'd have to say it's either the the DAP500 DAP500_1.jpg
    or the DAP550 DAP550_1.jpg
    or the DAP55 DAP55_1.jpg
    or the PD-20. PD20_1.jpg

    Can't really say for sure.
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  • scottnbnj
    scottnbnj Posts: 709
    edited February 2006
    sorry tour, my bad. i have this irresistable urge to save things,.. like words and scraps of paper that most normal folks would have given up long ago. it makes my wife nuts. anyway, when i said i found the model # above, that was shorthand for i found it on an aaffes catalog sales order status ticket that was in my manuals folder (the manual wasn't in there though). anyway it says roughly, 'turntable frd55... mailed 2 june 82'. it was programmable as i described. i never said it had linear tracking.

    there's another pic on a closed uk ebay sale that might make a little more sense here:
    http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Sansui-FR-D55-Turntable-NOT-WORKING_W0QQitemZ5840481754QQcategoryZ3283QQcmdZViewItem

    the buttons on the front and the sensor on the headshell are easier to see in this pic.

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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited February 2006
    Not so fast, scott, it may be my bad. None of the candidates ab posted look to be linear trackers...
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited February 2006
    :eek:

    That's definitely my bad. The one I had was undoubtedly linear tracking. I forgot all about that when looking at the pics. I was mainly going by the color and the front panel.
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  • scottnbnj
    scottnbnj Posts: 709
    edited February 2006
    no. No. as valentine's day eve has drawn to a close, i must insist on behalf of my wife, this *is* and will always be my bad from here until eternity.

    the box, tt and scrap of paper, should not be in the house. andso, should not have made it to this list, much less the first hit for "sansui fr-d55" after the crawlers find this page.

    happy? you're all gonna be famous now.

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  • dragon1952
    dragon1952 Posts: 4,907
    edited February 2006
    lol :)
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited February 2006
    scott,
    I cannot trump your skillful play of the "wife" card.
    You may have "the bad"...
    More later,
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