Meissiner Phono Recorder
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Microtouch
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Meissiner Phono Recorder
What do you think of this make & model Meissner? I was thinking of contacting the seller about it. I have a Recordette to restore but this looks to be better quality.
Vinyl is a disease which attacks that area of the brain desiring digital recordings. Once you catch it, you are cured.
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cuttercollector
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Re: your catchy phrase, I AM almost completly cured, but the cure starts first with a growing aversion to low bitrate digital like 128 mp3s, then through CDs etc. I still kind of like high bitrate digital recordings.
But, being an old guy, that all came AFTER all the analog formats for me.
As to the Meissner, it is a step up from the Recordette, perhaps a little better than the bigger Recordios from Wilcox Gay. It uses a somewhat standard General Industries 78/33 turntable-cutter-playback arm assembly, with a Crystal cutter and a crystal playback cartridge that others used as well. It seems to have been geared towards the low cost semi-pro or educational/institutional market.
I have heard how a restored, properly set up one sounds. It makes recordings at 78 rpm on modrern lacquer, with a decent input source, that rival most 50s home reel to reel tape recorders. That is to say pretty quiet and clean with fidelity somewhere between good AM and FM radio broadcasts.
In hard numbers I would guess a S/N ratio in the high 40s - low 50s and response from perhaps 50-60Hz to 7-8Khz on the high end.
But, being an old guy, that all came AFTER all the analog formats for me.
As to the Meissner, it is a step up from the Recordette, perhaps a little better than the bigger Recordios from Wilcox Gay. It uses a somewhat standard General Industries 78/33 turntable-cutter-playback arm assembly, with a Crystal cutter and a crystal playback cartridge that others used as well. It seems to have been geared towards the low cost semi-pro or educational/institutional market.
I have heard how a restored, properly set up one sounds. It makes recordings at 78 rpm on modrern lacquer, with a decent input source, that rival most 50s home reel to reel tape recorders. That is to say pretty quiet and clean with fidelity somewhere between good AM and FM radio broadcasts.
In hard numbers I would guess a S/N ratio in the high 40s - low 50s and response from perhaps 50-60Hz to 7-8Khz on the high end.