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where they had a little transmitter in them to transmit the music all thru the house to any AM radio..
"If it measures good and sounds bad, it is bad; if it measures bad and sounds good, you have measured the wrong thing."
- Daniel R. von Recklinghausen
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Lately, I've been hooking up more and more turntables directly to SonoS Connect Amps to transmit Phono throughout whole house audio systems. It works great! Modern version of this I suppose.
Never seen a wireless phonograph, but Allied and others made a "phono broadcaster" that you could plug your phono (or microphone) into and broadcast. It was a simple one-tube oscillator.
Yeah,they were fairly common. If you already had a radio and didn't want to pay for a self contained phonograph those tts were money savers.Made for portability,too. Another way to go was an ''attachment'' tt. Instead of a transmitter the tt was connected to the via an audio cable. Many radios-and later on,tvs- had a phono jack on the back of the chassis.
Yes, very popular as back then virtually no radios had phono or aux inputs. The bigger surprise is how good they sounded. Shows nothing really new in this world. Back then they had wireless streaming AND analog.
I have seen some hacks where these were rewired to stereo on very late models having 33 1/3 rpm and each channel wired to a different am transmitter tuned to a different frequency. Today we simply would plug the phono preamp out to one of those fm transmitters for mp3 and off we go.
Don Brian Levy, J.D.
Toronto ON Canada
I never seen a TT that had an AM transmitter either. And, I have seen a lot of old audio items.
Mikey,
I ask again, please post a link to your videos.
More than a few of us are not able to see your embedded links.
Thanks and regards to you all,
John
They were quite popular in the late 30's. I have examples from Zenith, Philco, Admiral, RCA and GE.
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