I just inherited a Silvertone record player . . .

There's a warning tag on it stating only to plug it into 110-125V, 60 cycle AC current.  I'm not an electrician, but are any household plug-ins that specific anymore, or do I need some sort of adapter?

as far as i know there is north american voltage and a different european voltage

should be fine, plug the fucker in

  On 7/7/2009 at 12:09 AM, yek said:

as far as i know there is north american voltage and a different european voltage

Which is cleaner?

  On 7/7/2009 at 12:10 AM, BCM said:

should be fine, plug the fucker in

I don't have a needle (or is it called a head?) or records yet.

lol

  On 7/7/2009 at 12:11 AM, OneToThirtySix said:

Which is cleaner?

 

 

 

depending on where you live and where you plug it in it could fuck shit up.. i'd get it looked at

the electric in london's well dirty. i have to scrub my plug sockets with soap and water.

haha

I can't even find a picture for this thing, it's that old.

It comes with another "matched" speaker and has the word "Syntronic" printed everywhere on it. I think it's from the early 60's. Probably sounds like shit.

if you live in america, that is the electricity that comes out of your wallhole

so you'll be fine

  On 7/7/2009 at 12:24 AM, kaini said:

if you live in america, that is the electricity that comes out of your wallhole

 

so you'll be fine

I had a talk with my parents about the Ohms and the V's.

  On 7/7/2009 at 12:26 AM, OneToThirtySix said:

I had a talk with my parents about the Ohms and the V's.

snap

I have a feeling this could be the beginning of an expensively dangerous hobby.

ohm sweet ohm

  On 7/7/2009 at 12:33 AM, OneToThirtySix said:

I have a feeling this could be the beginning of an expensively dangerous hobby.

you know not how right you are

I'll have pics soon, and I have some questions for any vintage equipment collectors.

thats the voltage for a standard wall socet in America, fucking plug it in.

Thats like buying a nad with "only plug into a socket with 3 pins" written on it in England.

  On 7/7/2009 at 4:26 AM, abusivegeorge said:

thats the voltage for a standard wall socet in America, fucking plug it in.

 

Thats like buying a nad with "only plug into a socket with 3 pins" written on it in England.

I am over my fear of plugging it in. I am not, however, over the fear of being unable to attach the second speaker. The connecting wires are open at the end (no plug), and the only place I can find to plug it in looks like the socket for an old RCA plug, but I didn't think they had those in the 60's.

. . . Wait, what's a nad?

  On 7/7/2009 at 12:11 AM, OneToThirtySix said:

 

I don't have... records yet.

Time to buy some Analords.

  On 7/7/2009 at 5:58 AM, jefferoo said:

Time to buy some Analords.

dont

  On 7/7/2009 at 6:20 AM, beatfanatic said:

dont

y?

  On 7/7/2009 at 5:32 AM, OneToThirtySix said:

  On 7/7/2009 at 4:26 AM, abusivegeorge said:

thats the voltage for a standard wall socet in America, fucking plug it in.

 

Thats like buying a nad with "only plug into a socket with 3 pins" written on it in England.

 

I am over my fear of plugging it in. I am not, however, over the fear of being unable to attach the second speaker. The connecting wires are open at the end (no plug), and the only place I can find to plug it in looks like the socket for an old RCA plug, but I didn't think they had those in the 60's.

 

 

 

. . . Wait, what's a nad?

 

 

shitty amplifier

NAD gear is not at all shitty

I'm taking pics tonight, hopefully I can get them up in a couple hours.

Sorry, the wife got off work early and it messed up my schedule for the rest of the night.

Front, also the speaker, according to my dad, who used to listen to Johnny Cash records on it:

This is where the second speaker is packaged:

This is the only place I can find that looks like something might plug in:

 . . . but the speaker has no attachments at the end of the wires:

Does anybody know what kind of plug I would need to attach the other speaker?