Philips EL3501 reel to reel tape recorder from 1952

This is an early example of a large format Philips tape recorder, one is valve, the other is transistor (modded), there is no music or sound yet as I dont have the right connectors to make them link with the Hi-Fi

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• Philips recorder
• reel to reel
• vintage recorder
• old tape recorder
• reel-to-reel
• professional recorder
• Swiss recorder
• early recording equipement

[koppellen]

I Like this machine's i'have got 4 of them nou they are greate too work whit its asey tou make 2 of them came from wisseloord studio's nummer 5 is comming up, i have also 3 telufunken m10 also great machine's.

Groeten Andre

[Seblington]

Thank you for your comments, I would be interested to know if you have any spares for these machines as I need 2 thumb screws for the front, and at least 1 if not 2 amp covers, could you help?

[lrh1966]

Nice vintage Philips, what are the specifications on these decks regarding signal to noise ratio, wow/flutter, frequency response(how wide and flat), overload distortion rating?

[Seblington]

Good questions, no answers at the moment, yesterday I found that there is no sound coming out of the amps, which is a shame, was looking forward to using it, I ordered the tech data and am awaiting it's delivery.

[ShaiDrori]

What a wonderful machine. When I was a kid I used to dub tape for transcription service on these machines. They ran at 60 IPS. Wow, this brings back memories.

[Seblington]

These both are the 15ips machines, would love a 30ips version, would you know what the audio connectors in the back are called? I have been trying to buy some.

[TheMrmagnetophon]

I'm looking at a book right now with this machine in it, odd thing is the headblock is set for oxide out in the book, can you reverse your headblock?

[lrh1966]

@dingoduf

Thank you for providing the wow & flutter specs on this recorder, it is very good for a recorder of that vintage(1952), and compares with the Ampex recorders made at the same time...Friends, Lloyd.

[dingoduf]

the data I have comes from the service manual of this deck: wow & flutter (peak to peak, measured with EMT418): 0,1% at 15 IPS and 0,15% at 7,5 IPS. Those are the only data given in the manual.

[btown2011]

i would like to see yours running koppellen.

[koppellen]

Parts are very difficult to find off these machin's but the sound is great!! is there sound coming out ore in by your's?

[btown2011]

here i found the audio connectors i will email the picture to you.