Ebay : GRAMPIAN CUTTERHEAD D - Sold for US $1750.

[fenrir19]

http://www.ebay.it/itm/GRAMPIAN-CUTTERHEAD-D-disc-lathe-phono-recorder-cutter-cutting-record-head-/111375583062?pt=Vintage_Electronics_R2&hash=item19ee808756#ht_24wt_1038

[studiorp]

Sold for US $ 1750 !!!

[uvoscillator]

[dietrich10]

great mono head.

i just said mono head....


is the vinyl game really this hot?

[powerstrip]

great mono head.

i just said mono head....


is the vinyl game really this hot?

O yeah, it is heating up big time...Come on Dietrich, you of anyone would know that!

But apparently it is, I usually valued a Grampian D at $750 but this is staggering.

My mentor picked one up attached to a Rek-O-Kut Overhead for $125, had to drive for 18 hours round trip but hey,

"There's a sucker born every minute" - PT Barnum

[aaron]

That's insane. You could buy a NEW, stereo Caruso for that price.

[Stevie342000]

Is it insane? Any object is only worth what people are willing to pay for it. The Grampian head is about as good as it is going to get for a mono head. It was a BBC design from way way back about 1942 or so and was in production for years. BBC often designed items for their use and got others to build them think Coles microphones, still in production.

As far as I know Grampian are not in business anymore.

I recently purchased a Serviced Presto 1-D mono cutter head (not feedback type) about the best you could get without feedback designed about 1947, the last of the decent mono heads. Which were widely available. It came with a Neumann adapter and a Capps SX68/74 brand new stylus with heater for a little less than $700US.

Which I think is reasonable given that it has had a full service and is ready to go. It might have been more than I wanted to pay but you have to pay the current going market rate or wait and hope these items drop in price.

Which is not likely but then not so many years back a Revox G36 went for £1000 now you lucky to get a 1/3 of that and you have to ship it to get the price as well, no one is willing to collect. I have one I tried to sell it and the same with Ferrograph 634H which I did sell in the end as a private sale and I got the money I would have got on an auction site £200 or so. If it had been fully serviced and working then I would have got more for it.

Given the choice between a Grampian and a Presto I would have preferred a Grampian but they are not so many around these days, far less than you see Presto 1-C or 1-Ds around anyhow. I have the BBC modifications to the Presto Amp so using feedback would have been no problem.

The Grampian head and cutter system was the de facto system in UK and US mostly on Scully lathes for the whole of the MONO era thats more than 20 years, as the head design pre-dates micro-groove recordings.

[powerstrip]

That's insane. You could buy a NEW, stereo Caruso for that price.

yeah, NEW being the key word there.

they just don't make em like they used to...

caruso won't have that grampian charm/smell

[uvoscillator]

caruso won't have that grampian charm/smell

guess it will start smelling 30 years later

[dietrich10]

"There's a sucker born every minute" - PT Barnum

Pt Barnum was born around corner from where I sit

[flozki]

you dont have to wait 30 years...
just use a wrong fuse!
smells wonderfull with a 3A slowblow fuse.

http://www.flokason.ch/imgs/blown_caruso_coil.jpg



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[uvoscillator]

smells wonderfull with a 3A slowblow fuse.

I'd like to try ! Just gime a chance