KLUDGE@AGCB8.LARC.NASA.GOV (07/31/90)
For the many folks who have been asking, the address of Tandberg/Dual/Ortofon is: Ortofon (Parts department) 122 Dupont St. Plainview, NY. 11803 (516) 349-9180 And for those who haven't been asking, I've got one for you. My office stereo has been shaping up nicely, with a pair of AR-4X speakers (with Leach super- tweeters), a pair of homebrew amplifiers built around the shells of old Bogen PA amplifiers, my old Sansui cassette deck and my old Tandberg 64. Also of course the Watkins-Johnson 901 that I found in the back room... with the bandwidth set to "70 KC" it makes a slick FM tuner. But something was missing. Besides the strange looks I have been getting from my boss and officemates when I dragged this stuff in. What was missing was a CD player. The long and the short of it was that I was in a pawn shop and bought a Symphonic brand player for $40. It works, but doesn't sound too hot, and I can't find Sam's Photofacts on it. Even weirder, the converter stuff looks to me a mixture of Sony and Yamaha parts, with a Burr-Brown thing thrown in. Lots of SIP chips (2043SE's, 4558S's and the like), a 5072 chip, a TC4053BP (Toshiba) and other weirdness. Looks like an LC filter in the audio path too (in this enlightened age?). Any help identifying these things? The player was made in '85, so I presumed it would be fairly standard first generation-type stuff. Bad presumption. --scott