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Car audio long before 8 track| Jim Eck |
Posted: April 10, 2009 09:16 am
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 One of Jerry's Kids  Group: Moderator Posts: 3364 Member No.: 38 Joined: July 12, 2006  |
-------------------- "Son, let this be a lesson to you: never do tequila shooters within a country mile of a marriage chapel."
- Al Bundy Fairchild 412-1B SME arm Pickering XSV-3000 GAS Thoebe Grant Fidelity B-283 California Audio Labs Delta Transport Paradesea DAC DBX-3BX-DS Sansui TU-7700 Adcom 585 Hafler Pro 500 Legacy Classic's Tube system Scott 299B, Thorens TD-160, Klipsch Heresy's |
 
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| clint e. |
Posted: April 10, 2009 02:44 pm
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 D161t@L 0N L1N3 / Analog at heart Group: Moderator Posts: 6089 Member No.: 40 Joined: July 13, 2006 |
Incredible info, tanx for sharing.
 Hey Jim can i use these links and post them under Defunct & Discontinued topic? --------------------   " Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be measured " Albert Einstein |
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| dingus |
Posted: April 10, 2009 06:11 pm
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 How can people be so cruel? Group: Admin Posts: 4734 Member No.: 3 Joined: June 29, 2006 |
those would have been cool to see in person. wonder how they sounded without the needle skipping all over the place.
i cant think of any reason not to. -------------------- Teledyne AR9, Yamaha B-2x, Yamaha M-2, Hafler DH-110, EAD DSP 1000, Wadia WT-3200.
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| hakka26 |
Posted: April 10, 2009 11:26 pm
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 Millenium Member  Group: Members Posts: 1231 Member No.: 57 Joined: August 02, 2006 |
Apparently the technology was taken over by another company, Automatic Record Changer (A.R.C.) Electronics out of South Gate, CA and offered as an after-market product (guess who ahs an original brochure
 ). Circa 1966 list price was $99.50. There was also a lower model. Claimed that the skipping problem was solved. Company later offered a 4-Track player $119.88 w/speakers  . Several years ago I stopped at an estate sale of a gentleman that owned a local auto parts store starting in the '50s. I have one of the first after-market FM car radios offered. A tube model and expensive as all heck (I believe there is thread about this). Anyway I got a number of brochures and catalogs. One of them has this very record player but they went back to the 45 format. |
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| clint e. |
Posted: April 11, 2009 04:30 am
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D161t@L 0N L1N3 / Analog at heart Group: Moderator Posts: 6089 Member No.: 40 Joined: July 13, 2006 |
Congrats, you have an incredible piece of audio history in your hands.
Can you please put a pic or two of that brochure here at ST just for curiosity. I find this so amazing, because i don't recall saw anything like this before in any European car model. Only in America....  -------------------- " Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be measured " Albert Einstein |
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| hakka26 |
Posted: April 12, 2009 01:26 am
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Millenium Member Group: Members Posts: 1231 Member No.: 57 Joined: August 02, 2006 |
As it is you asking, here it is. It is an aftermarket product.
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| hakka26 |
Posted: April 12, 2009 01:29 am
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Inside page. I don't get out to sales as often as I did. I always looked for these things and more often than not they were free or almost free.
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| Jim Eck |
Posted: April 12, 2009 03:22 am
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One of Jerry's Kids Group: Moderator Posts: 3364 Member No.: 38 Joined: July 12, 2006 |
Sure can. Jim -------------------- "Son, let this be a lesson to you: never do tequila shooters within a country mile of a marriage chapel."
- Al Bundy Fairchild 412-1B SME arm Pickering XSV-3000 GAS Thoebe Grant Fidelity B-283 California Audio Labs Delta Transport Paradesea DAC DBX-3BX-DS Sansui TU-7700 Adcom 585 Hafler Pro 500 Legacy Classic's Tube system Scott 299B, Thorens TD-160, Klipsch Heresy's |
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| clint e. |
Posted: April 12, 2009 05:06 am
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D161t@L 0N L1N3 / Analog at heart Group: Moderator Posts: 6089 Member No.: 40 Joined: July 13, 2006 |
For you "kids in America" maybe it's just another audio curiosity but for me was a total revelation. I never saw anything like this before.
Tanx for sharing guys. -------------------- " Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be measured " Albert Einstein |
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| hakka26 |
Posted: April 12, 2009 01:51 pm
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Millenium Member Group: Members Posts: 1231 Member No.: 57 Joined: August 02, 2006 |
Considering a Mac MC40 amp was $159 MSRP around the same period the player wasn't cheap.
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| clint e. |
Posted: April 12, 2009 03:03 pm
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D161t@L 0N L1N3 / Analog at heart Group: Moderator Posts: 6089 Member No.: 40 Joined: July 13, 2006 |
Yes, i saw that too. Almost 100 dollars.. at that time US had a better living standards than almost any country in Europe, maybe that's why i never saw one of those things in here.
-------------------- " Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be measured " Albert Einstein |
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| hakka26 |
Posted: April 12, 2009 03:37 pm
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Millenium Member Group: Members Posts: 1231 Member No.: 57 Joined: August 02, 2006 |
Alvaro,
for your entertainment here is a list from 1959 of foreign cars Motorola had aftermarket in-dash radios. I also have the catalog with the photo (I think, have couple from various years). This post has been edited by hakka26 on April 12, 2009 05:06 pm Attached Image (Click thumbnail to expand)  |
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| clint e. |
Posted: April 12, 2009 04:23 pm
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D161t@L 0N L1N3 / Analog at heart Group: Moderator Posts: 6089 Member No.: 40 Joined: July 13, 2006 |
Tanx mate. Incredible stuff. BTW, my name is Alvaro, not Jorge.  -------------------- " Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be measured " Albert Einstein |
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| hakka26 |
Posted: April 12, 2009 05:09 pm
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Millenium Member Group: Members Posts: 1231 Member No.: 57 Joined: August 02, 2006 |
Oops, I know that but sometimes I type faster than I think, and the way I hunt and peck that's not easy! |
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