1920 through 1930 must've been an incredible time to be alive for sound junkies. To witness the birth of electrical recording and to watch the tehcnological race for better sound between phonographs and radios would be as exciting and using CompuServe or having posted on Prodigy's billboards just before the explosion of the internet!
----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Bogantz" <gbogan...@charter.net> To: "Antique Phonograph List" <phono-l at oldcrank.org> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 3:13 PM Subject: Re: [Phono-L] What is this? Atwater Kent Type 5Vphonographattachment > From my experience, the type 5V is the most common by far. I rarely > see > the other A-K variants of this driver. The 5V turn up moderately often on > eBay and sell for 5 to 50 bux. They're probably the most in demand by > people who collect both radios and phonos as they are a good crossover > collectible. These were most popular in the period before about 1925. I > suspect that not many of the later ones designed to fit the orthophonic > phonos were sold due to the fact that radio speaker technology was > improving > very rapidly with the introduction of the Kellogg dynamic speaker in 1925. > By 1929 the radios sets complete with built-in speakers were sounding > better > than the acoustic phonos and the reverse adapter become popular - an > electric pickup that could be fitted to an acoustic tonearm and which was > wired into your radio so that you could play records thru your radio! > > Greg Bogantz
