10-18-2010, 11:59 PM
Ron: You lucky fella having a Regency Symphony. Originally, the changer was a Webster-Chicago 56 . After summer 1948, when Columbia announced their microgroove records, the Maggies began to be shipped with the new W-C 256 changer. I have one in my Maggie Windsor.
I think that there's a spare W-C 256 changer laying around here somewhere. If you'd want it' I'll send it to you.
My next door neighbor bought a Regency-Symphony in 1947. It was only a short time before the Columbia LP discs came along, so he bought a W-C 256 changer for the set. I helped him install it. The 256 went right in place of the 56.
Those changers would usually take a GE VR pickup cartridge in place of the crystal, which would be dead by now. A GE preamp can usually be found to be mounted in the cabinet. A simpler solution would be a E-V Powerpoint flipover, or possibly a Ronette turnover, if you use the 2 speed changer.
Is the receiver chassis in yours the one with the FM band on it, or do you have the optional FM tuner? The Regency-Symphonies came both ways.
Do you know that the manufacture date is rubber stamped on the chassis, both receiver and amplifier, in those Maggie sets? It's a 6 digit number, something like 470914....something like that. This number would mean: 1947 September 14. I could have the digits mixed up, but you could easily sort out the meaning when you read them. If yours was made after around mid-1948, it would have had the Webster 256 in it from the factory.
Lemme know.
I think that there's a spare W-C 256 changer laying around here somewhere. If you'd want it' I'll send it to you.
My next door neighbor bought a Regency-Symphony in 1947. It was only a short time before the Columbia LP discs came along, so he bought a W-C 256 changer for the set. I helped him install it. The 256 went right in place of the 56.
Those changers would usually take a GE VR pickup cartridge in place of the crystal, which would be dead by now. A GE preamp can usually be found to be mounted in the cabinet. A simpler solution would be a E-V Powerpoint flipover, or possibly a Ronette turnover, if you use the 2 speed changer.
Is the receiver chassis in yours the one with the FM band on it, or do you have the optional FM tuner? The Regency-Symphonies came both ways.
Do you know that the manufacture date is rubber stamped on the chassis, both receiver and amplifier, in those Maggie sets? It's a 6 digit number, something like 470914....something like that. This number would mean: 1947 September 14. I could have the digits mixed up, but you could easily sort out the meaning when you read them. If yours was made after around mid-1948, it would have had the Webster 256 in it from the factory.
Lemme know.
