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Post# 1024691   2/15/2019 at 10:56 (1,890 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions)   |   | |
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Post# 1024692 , Reply# 1   2/15/2019 at 11:22 (1,890 days old) by turquoisedude (.)   |   | |
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Post# 1024750 , Reply# 2   2/16/2019 at 03:55 (1,889 days old) by TheSpiritOf76 (Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, and OZ All Together. )   |   | |
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Made between 1970, and 1974. It has a VM (The Voice Of Music) made record changer, and the famous Micro Touch 2G arm, that only tracks at 2 grams! This model would have closer to the cheaper end of the line. But it was one of the last quality Zenith consoles before they cheapened their cabinets and components. Well worth the price tag! I would get it if it showed up in my area for free.
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Post# 1024816 , Reply# 3   2/16/2019 at 15:21 (1,889 days old) by firedome (Binghamton NY & Lake Champlain VT)   |   | |
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Post# 1024864 , Reply# 4   2/17/2019 at 04:03 (1,888 days old) by TheSpiritOf76 (Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, and OZ All Together. )   |   | |
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For the most part all their changers were the same. I will say on the higher end models at this period on time, like on my much larger '73 Zenith D945DE, the changer does have some higher end features, like a cue lever, and a removable center post for manual use. But the mechanism is still the same...Shame such a good company went under just a few years later.
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Post# 1024870 , Reply# 5   2/17/2019 at 06:50 (1,888 days old) by tolivac (greenville nc)   |   | |
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VM made EXCELLENT lower priced TT's-changers.They also made basic RR tape transports.Those were made for various tape machine builders-you didn't see the name VM on the deck.Sad VM went under. |
Post# 1024892 , Reply# 6   2/17/2019 at 10:08 (1,888 days old) by firedome (Binghamton NY & Lake Champlain VT)   |   | |
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in this console in that according to the above ad they used an air-suspension design, which had been around since Edgar Villchur and AR popularized it in the mid-'50s, yet consoles from the '50s to '70s and beyond almost invariably used open back speaker compartments, not even ported designs. Odd as either would have markedly improved particularly the bass performance at not a lot of cost. One exception to this was Stromberg-Carlson who employed weird speaker enclosures made of a sort of waxy impregnated sawdust/fiberboard similar to Homasote, which were mounted inside the speaker-enclosure part of the cabinet on heavy Fiberglas padding to isolate them. Very effective and a step beyond what even high-end consoles like Fisher had.
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