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Originally Posted by bgadow
I recently sold a GE Partymate, which I think was even cheaper! Not a changer, impossibly cheap little chassis, sounded terrible. This one was very clean as it had been kept on hand at a local civic organization back when they might have a program to listen to on record. It probably never saw 6 hours of use. I got $14 for it.
We had a Wildcat when I was a kid, a hand-me-down from an older cousin. It never seemed to work right. Everything we had back then was GE and that sort of bored me.
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Mine came from an auction.Wish my prior stepfather had brought home the Magnavox instead. Mine worked fine after it got a new needle but never had the 45 adaptor. Putting all those little clips in every 45 was a pain.Never could get the right adaptor for it.I turned it backwards during cycle while I had it apart trying to fiigure out how it worked and broke a piece off the cycle cam. It never got put back together and to the dump it went.At least it's replacement a Longines Symphonette BSR mini changer w/ separate spkrs and separate bass/treble controls from a yard sale had better sound. Not a lot but better for sure.That player had 2 problems though and they were finally fixed years later when I was able to fix things rather than just take them apart.The most excasperating one was it always moved in to land on a 12" record instead of the rest when it shut off which meant it landed the needle on the motor board if you were playing 45s.There was a sorta shelf worn on the shut off stop and it was slipping by to go to 12" at the last second.2nd was a simple bad ground connection causing an annoying hum that a slap on the side would make go away.
At least he got rid of the awful GE 19" tv in our living room that snapped all the time and brought a nice 25" console with him even though it was a Sears /Warwick set it did have a nice picture when it worked right.