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This applies even more so to the aforementioned machines designed for AC/DC power. Remember that all mains powered equipment, especially if old, is potentially dangerous. It is therefore recommended that you read up, within these forums and the parent website, about capacitors (including smoothing and reservoir 'cans', as they tend to be called), resistors, transformers (mains and output), the differences (apart from the obvious) between valved and transistorised amplifiers, power supplies and in particular the differences between machines designed for AC only power and those designed for AC/DC power. Nor is it practical to detail very make/model or record player or deck, to do so would require the writing of a quite hefty book. So to summarise the above, this guide is aimed at the newcomer who just wants his/her record player to operate safely and reliably but who may only have little, or no, relevant technical knowledge.įurthermore, it isn't practical to herein and hereinafter teach you everything about electronics beyond, say, component recognition and replacement. However, we appreciate that this is all well and good if you already have some knowledge of how record players work, as well as some knowledge of the relevant electronics and mechanics. Most faults and remedies can be found by the simple expedient of doing a forum search.
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This provides the benefit of having information in front of you when you start work on your record player much better than shuttling back and forth between your PC and your workbench, kitchen table, shed or whatever. However, if you're a complete beginner remember that you can print out much of the information and/or save pages to your PC. This has been done to avoid too much duplication in this guide, although some duplication has been unavoidable. This guide contains links to other threads in our forums, as well as to pages in our main website. Data for many record players can be obtained from VRSD. If you intend/need to do electrical work, and you most probably will, then you'll need service data. If this applies to you, you will find a guide to operating autochanger machines, also in the section linked to above.
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Occasionally it transpires the 'problem' is nothing more than the owner not knowing how to operate the machine correctly.
Sometimes a record player might be known to be in good electrical order, but apparently isn't functioning correctly mechanically. There is, however, some general information due, in part, to the existence of 'stereo capable' machines which make use of an external, add-on, amplifier unit. Non radiogram stereophonic machines are also largely excluded due to their varying degress of complexity.
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Excluded, therefore, are acoustic (ie wind-up) gramophones, professional DJ equipment, radiogramophone amplifiers, car record players and oddities such as the Discatron and Discassette. This guide is concerned only with vintage (by the forums definition of the term) postwar domestic record players operated either by mains electricity, batteries or mains/battery power. To skip this introduction scroll to the Index in post #2.Īt the time of writing we are seeing an upsurge of interest in vintage record players and this guide is intended to accompany other related guides which are 'Stickies' in our Vintage Audio section.