RARE Pentron "Dormiphone" playing its tape cartridge.

This thing I got at a flea market. It must be very rare indeed. It may be from the '40s or early '50s. Of course it's vacuum tube. I replaced the drive belt and recapped the signal capacitors in the amp, thus greatly improving performance. I will later make a video showing the recording function and it in more detail. There, as I found on the Net, I found that there was another Dormiphone unit that used a record player. But this one is tape. I found that these machines were used in the past to play subliminal messages to people while sleeping, to help learn a language or remember something. I also heard that they were used in research in ESP and dream telepathy. The clock works on this and all those switch things around it are switches to turn the machine on and off at times in the night, just like those plug-in timers for turning lights on and off to keep away robbers. Although I have the original microphone to this, it is dead unfortunately.

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• vintage
• rare
• audio
• equipment
• dreams
• ESP
• subliminal
• message
• messaging
• tape
• recorder
• loop
• Cousino
• cartridge
• 8-track
• continuous
• weird
• 1940s
• 1950s
• tube
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• wow
• AC
• bias

[iorixs]

this is supposed to help a person learn lines for a play or something. what is this thing?

[CassetteMaster]

@iorixs It is to help someone remember things.

[JDTV1995]

when was that recorded?

[CassetteMaster]

@JDTV1995 I don't know exactly when. It had to be a long enough time ago for the original mic element to be good and the original belt good. There's no telling exactly when.

[PearlJammer07]

Neat looking machine. The man talking on the tape is just hilarious. Is that what was on the tape when you purchased this machine?

[CassetteMaster]

@PearlJammer07 Yes.

[NEWbobofhollywood]

I have one of the Dormiphone phonographs. Very interesting information you offer, indeed.

Very cool indeed.

[muzboz]

That is awesome man. I really want to make a really small tape delay pedal.

If I lived near you, I'd probably come over and annoy you about helping me build it! :)

Haha.

[m2esectr]

This would be from about 1963, as the first endless tape loop was introduced in 1962.

[shoprat17]

it's a backwards 8 track...

[coondogtheman1234]

you should do a direct hookup of that tape if you haven't recorded over it yet.