12-14-2024, 01:14 PM
I appreciate you joining in, sir! I'm certainly no expert yet, but I'm happy to bounce ideas around and learn more about the troubleshooting process.
This is all very interesting. It was actually just this week when I first read about the Beam Of Light audio pickup. Sounds as though there is more to investigate. Myself, I do not own a turntable of this vintage. I'm more familiar with the magnetic pickup systems. When I was on the search for my 46-480, I saw a physically similar model 47-1227. It was an upright console with AM-FM radio (no shortwave like mine) and a turntable. It was very appealing to me, but was in New York and the seller insisted upon local pickup.
Are you able to elaborate a bit more on the mechanics of the BOL pickup? Does it still have a stylus which physically touches the platter, or does it simply emit a light and observe the intensity of the reflected light? Sounds like I've got some reading to do!
This is all very interesting. It was actually just this week when I first read about the Beam Of Light audio pickup. Sounds as though there is more to investigate. Myself, I do not own a turntable of this vintage. I'm more familiar with the magnetic pickup systems. When I was on the search for my 46-480, I saw a physically similar model 47-1227. It was an upright console with AM-FM radio (no shortwave like mine) and a turntable. It was very appealing to me, but was in New York and the seller insisted upon local pickup.
Are you able to elaborate a bit more on the mechanics of the BOL pickup? Does it still have a stylus which physically touches the platter, or does it simply emit a light and observe the intensity of the reflected light? Sounds like I've got some reading to do!
Joseph
Philco 46-480
Philco 49-906
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