Canuck Audio Mart

Here is my portable player.
I bought her at a garage sale for $20.00 six years ago.
It looks and plays like it was just brought home from the store.
Also the speakers detach and you can plug the speaker cables in up tp 3ft. away.
Plays all three speeds.

Must be a rare player because I can't find any information on the internet at all.

If anyone has information on this player...like the year.
Would be greatly appreciated.
Here are a few pictures.....enjoy.

Hello and welcome to CAM

Likely there is no info on your record player as there may not be any collector interest...

As for as whether it is 1950's or 1960's...If it has tube amplification it is from the 1950's as solid state amplification didn't come into use in such products until the 1960's..

tubeornotube

It's a BSR about 1962. Marconi was a distributor, as it says on that label, for products manufactured in the States by various manufacturers. There will probably be a paper label inside (if it hasn't fallen off and out of the unit) with the actual manufacturer. It's nice that it's in good shape, but that unit is not vaguely collectible except to a completist as a market example.

Tubes were used in cheap phonographs right up to the late sixties. Tube amps were cheaper to produce than solid state with similar performance.

Definitely Looks like a BSR turntable to me. Probably mid to later 60's. Not much value in the unit but still real cool to see. Most of the "audiophiles" on this forum started out with a machine like that or spun vinyl or their parents that owned one! Thanks for that trip down memory lane!!!............Dave

I'll bet it's an RCA. My folks had a Victor console with the exact same changer. My guess is it's late '50s or early '60s

Thanks for the quick replies.

I thought it was from the early to middle 60s.

I'm not looking to get rid of my player.
Just posted it here to show a fine example of early record players.
I've been in the auction business for over 35 years and never saw another one like this.

Many thanks again,
Bert

It's quite unusual to see it as a STEREO unit, but mono units with that same phonograph and case style and construction were extremely common in the early 60's. Yes it could be an RCA as well as a Marconi, or Majestic or Silvertone etc. all with the chassis produced by the same OEM.

Funny thing had one of my old customers bring in the same model for repair....he dropped it , the front is nailed on & came apart.

Anyways I see him every now & then I think he owned since new , will ask him.

Odd design three speakers......

Brian

Not that odd back then. Awhile back Yaukui posted a link to the manual of an early Heathkit tube amp that had three outputs. I guess the middle channel was a cure for ping pong stereo.

Those side speakers must pump out some serious bass!