Скачать или смотреть Testing a Brand New Automatic Reproducer on a 5" brown wax cylinder.

This reproducer was manufactured in 2019-2020. It sells for $199.00, at present. (Originals go for $250-$400.00 or more.) The Automatic reproducer was introduced in 1892 by the Edison Phonograph Works as the first Edison commercial Playback Only speaker. Previous to 1892, the main speaker was the Standard speaker which contained both playback and recording stylli on one bar, pushing the adjustment arm down would put the speaker into record mode, while pushing the speaker arm up to the adjustment lug, would put the playback stylus into position, and minor adjustments of the adjustment screw would put the stylus into the groove, the standard speaker had rigid weights that did not move from side to side. The Automatic allowed vertical and lateral movement of the floating weight, allowing the stylus to automatically track the record groove. We are playing a 5" Graphophone Grand 5" concert cylinder dating from about 1899-1900. It pushes the new automatic to the audio limits, and the new reproducer (as supplied by the manufacture) responds beautifully. The 5' horn used for playback was from Thomas Edison's 79, 5th ave recording studio and used to capture large band ensembles to make Edison molded and four-minute selections.