RCA VICTOR NEW ORTHOPHONIC HIGH FIDELITY 4 SPEED PORTABLE RECORD PLAYER DEMONSTRATION

Hello, this is the same model RCA that was given to me by one of my parents friends daughter when I was nine years old. She was all grown up and didn't use it anymore. It was a major upgrade for a nine year old. I loved the sound quality and I had never heard bass sound from a phonograph before. My older sisters records sounded so good ! I really started buying my own records then. I played this for years and years and it never needed a thing but a needle every few years. I dug out my mom's 78's, she had not heard them in years. I learned what 1940's big band music was. Its a very large player, the model is 8-HFP-1. The 33 1/3 demo record I got from ebay. It says on the label Demonstration record for RCA Victor high fidelity Victrola Phonographs. Narration by Deems Taylor # E3-CL-4791 and is one sided. When I got older and got my first STEREO I gave this to a friend and never saw it again. But ebay brought one just like it back to me ! I still love the sound quality and love to stack a bunch of 45's and remember. I hope you enjoy it too !

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Music

Tags:

• VICTOR
• NEW
• ORTHOPHONIC
• HIGH
• FIDELITY
• SPEED
• PORTABLE
• RECORD
• PLAYER
• DEMONSTRATION
• 33
• 1/3
• VICTROLA
• DEEMS
• TAYLOR
• MODEL
• 8HFP1

[SuperPianoMaestro]

is it a flip needle?

[desoto1961]

@SuperPianoMaestro Yes!!

[cartoonfan1920s]

Can you play 12 inches with this? Looks a little small. I love the video, quality is great. How does this player compare to modern record players? I really have a liking to this.

[desoto1961]

@cartoonfan1920s Yes it plays all four speeds and 7,10 or 12 inch records. Vintage tube players sounds much better than new ones.

[Trance88]

Sounds really good. I'm sure the sound quality of the then new 33 1/3 RPM records blew 78's out of the water.

[peesyweesy]

Wonderful! Someone once said that all we needed to know for a good amplifier we knew by 1931. Even Brian May of Queen still uses tube amps.

[force311999]

@peesyweesy most all real guitar players use ONLY tube amps LOL

[DustyDingies]

I had one of these beauties!Wonderful player! DD The Creepy Clown

[stefanielin]

I just got my hands on one of these from an estate sale, its in ok shape but I was wondering, would you ever consider scanning the manual? I would be happy to pay for it.

Thanks!

[MichaelJHuman]

The frequency response is really good. Sounds clear across the whole spectrum. Obviously bass is not going to be amazing, but mid range, and the high stuff sounds pretty good.

The commenter's voice sounds very natural.



[fromthesidelines]

The label clearly states that this was recorded on July 8, 1953, 'kenny', so it was intended for demonstrating "new" RCA Victor 'Victrola' phonographs introduced in the fall of '53.

[fromthesidelines]

33rpm records were hardly "new" when this demonstration record was recorded in July 1953, 'Trance'. Columbia [CBS] introduced the "modern" LP record in June 1948. RCA was caught "off guard" by their innovation {in fact, they tried to market a 10 inch "33" record between 1931 and '33, but technology and the Depression scuttled it}, and, in retaliation, introduced the "45" in March 1949. Yet, RCA began releasing their own "33" records in January 1950 [with Columbia's first "45" by the end of '51].