De-Jay Special Edition SP-30 | Review & Test!

[@dhpbear2]

In 1967 when I was 12, I got a record player from a church rummage-sale. Absolutely BASIC record-player. Three years later I 'cannibalized' the amp and speaker and connected it to improve the sound of my Wollensak (identical to Norelco) Compact Cassette Recorder!

[@That70sKid]

I'm both a 70s and 80s kid. My first record player was a Close N Play; though easy to use, it was awful and scratched up my records. It didn't last long. When I was 5, I got a Realistic children's phonograph from Radio Shack, which was great. I had a ton of book and record sets. Among my favorite sets were the Peanuts ones, which had the actual audio from the TV specials, the Star Wars sets, and the Disney ones. Then I got into the superhero records, which were hugely popular in the 1970s and released by labels like Power Records and Peter Pan. They were dramatized stories with sound effects and music, like radio plays, featuring Spider-Man, Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, etc. There were two Incredible Hulk records, a 33RPM 7" from 1974 that was based on the comic and a 1979 LP based on the TV show - with David Banner voiced by a Bill Bixby soundalike. There was a Man-Thing record with a story way too disturbing for children, and many more based on comics - even horror comics. They also released children's story records based on TV heroes like the Six Million Dollar Man and Kojak, Star Trek records, so much great stuff. Some of the records came with read-along comics, and I was surprised by the quality of the artwork. I have a small collection of these superhero records, but not the ones with the read-along comics. Too bad they stopped making them in the early 80s.

[@dhpbear2]

16:16 - Wow! They really BLEW it with that Communicator-beep! :)

[@BeaSides]

So much fun!! My FisherPrice record player took some abuse from me and my sisters. We had disco parties, roller skated, and everything else we could think of around that player and it just did not stop! My husband had the same player when he was a kid as well. Core memories for people who continue to love, play, and collect records today.

[@RCALivingStereo]

I have the fisher price one I had one new as a kid If broke years years ago I found one on eBay recently still in the box. Plays perfectly They actually are well made and sound very good First thing I did was replace all those tamper proof screws they used and replaced them with Philips head screws. Glad to see you have these

[@Kane26510]

Great video - record players like that bring back such memories of kid hood. That color is Burnt Orange - Harvest Gold or Harvest Yellow is more of a sickly yellow with brown toned thrown in. The throwback palette is completed with Powder Blue, Pink, and Avocado. Cheers!

[@Recordology]

Thank you!

[@ssnoc]

Lots of orange in those day’s which still looks awesome - We need more orange players 👍

[@stanleycostello9610]

In the late 50's I had a record player (Yes. I'm that old.) which had a soundbox. It did have a motor. Was all metal. Little Golden records I played on it.

[@RCALivingStereo]

Also to I had those little books and records sets. I liked the HeMan series 😆 I’ve rebought many over the years and dig mine out once in a while to enjoy. Love this stuff about your channel

[@Ralph-r2i]

Had this same player when I was little.. I wore out so many Bee Gees styrene 45s , would just listen to them for hours over and over. I can tell ya I still have one of those records and when ya play it it’s mostly static with a faint trace of music in the background. Lol

[@motorol5610]

yes 1969 I was 5 and got a new GE brand for my birthday it was similar material plastic. It's what i learned how to play 45s... .my older siblings had a mid 60s RCA version which was a better made unit. I remembered they were both 4 speed units....upgraded ever since!

[@shonstewart4957]

Love it thanks buddy very cool

[@timothyweers8054]

My brother had the DeeJay record player as a kid. I remember I had to pull off the volume and tone knobs to make the arrows go to correct areas when on, off, bass or treble. This was the one I told you about where I placed the needle down on the backside instead of the regular side last year during the live broadcast.

[@einerreklov4304]

Great review - love the vintage stuff almost more than the new. Memories, I had a GE Wildcat with the speakers in the lid back in the day. My very first 'record player' when I was like 3 y/o was some portable toy that played plastic records much like a music box. I must have driven my parents mad playing the same three or four songs over and over again because all of a sudden it was gone.

[@abcd1239me]

I had a fisher price record player as a kid. I think instead of orange it was yellow. I would listen to that all the time. Mostly had 45 records.

[@hackfernandes823]

I loved it 😍😍

[@lizkrinsky5209]

I had a GE Show n Tell. My brother and I used it to death. Actually, not to death. Until we outgrew it. Those things were made to last.

[@stanleycostello9610]

Yes, I had that too. Red and white. One side of the record had the recorded text and the other side had music.

[@davidrlogana5964]

I found I found 1950s 1960s RCA small suitcase record player the kind of ones on tubes at yard sale it play good 👍😊

[@davidrlogana5964]

Thank you very much

[@stefanegger]

Back in the day when things were really tested. Unlike the one you had where the LP was hitting the cover and the weight distribution was so off that it tipped backwards. I dont have something like that, I think it is interesting to watch from time to time, but not too much/too many/too often.

[@GeneSavage]

Reminds me a lot of the yellow Emerson kid's record player I had in the late 70s / early 80s. Same terrible tonearm support at the back.

[@The_Laser_Channel]

I had a Fisher Price record player as a kid. It was battery powered and just a month or so ago, my mom was digging around in the attic and found it! She sent me a pic of it and as soon as I saw it I said "Please make sure there weren't any batteries left in it!". I am sure the stylus needs to be replaced but other than that, it should still work. I did tell her to NOT get rid of it as well.

[@jim010109]

The Star Trek record/book is awesome. Brings back memories , cool review!

[@Recordology]

Thanks for watching!

[@therafman4150]

These vintage childrens relics are so cool. I bought a Take-a-long cassette player that is in mint condition that I remember from my childhood memories and seeing this video also brings back memories. Is the needle replaceable?

[@Recordology]

It is…I believe.

[@acerbt]

This doesn't relate directly to the player, but I figured I would point this out. I'm not sure what period the thing I will talk about is from, but I saw an audio book on 12 inch 33s a few years ago. What set this one apart is that it was made primarilly for blind people such as myself, and that fact is made clear since the center labels on the disks were in print and braille, so a blind user could read things like the title and disk number.

[@d19j62]

Interesting....good video😊

[@Recordology]

Thank you! 😃

[@TonyBanks21]

I remember the Music Maker made by Denys Fisher-here in the U.K.,back in the 1970s-if I remember rightly it used to run on batteries only ??

[@SkiBumMSP]

Wow! That is some Flutter! I wonder if that "gimbal" shaft on the tone arm is actually broken. Possible to "superglue" or epoxy it back together? That Star Trek record is pretty cool. Sounds like it is actually read/narrated by William Shatner himself.

[@plan7a]

The platter looked like one of the Fisher-Price plastic records, at first glance! The tone control seems to be more of a 'Treble' control, perhaps? (Only a slight one though). The player itself is something a young child would have loved to have had back in the day! (Odd that it doesn't have a 78 speed though, as a lot of children's records (at least here in the UK) were 78's. Just my thoughts on this one!

[@georgeprice4212]

By the time this unit dropped, 78’s were already dead.

[@stevenzagony6187]

The Drive and motor mechanism appears to be Matsushita (Panasonic)

[@KiSu-i9t]

Hello I'm new to vinyl, why are these called record players and not turntables if they both have the same functionality? Great video!

[@johnmarchington3146]

I think it's an excellent player for, say, 'under 10s' or even slightly older. I suppose one could grumble about the arm pivot but it obviously.plays discs OK - and, by the way, I heard an appreciable difference in the high frequencies when you adjusted the tone control.

[@dhpbear2]

14:10 - "Tone" controls on these units are really *treble* controls.

[@Recordology]

I agree....

[@Ralph-r2i]

Tetrad cartridge,,,, and first!!!!!! Yah

[@jakkeman1990]

These cases looks like old lunch boxes. 😀

[@UrbanoDagrippino]

Real Fisher price record player

[@Recordology]

There have been a few!

[@scooterboi8761]

It doesn't surprise me that Wm Shatner wanted approval on all his images. At DragonCon a few years ago, he was charging $100 for a signed head shot. Can't stand him.

[@ClayBenTreeceJr.]

Hey Record-o-logy there is a Cool CD player that I would like for you to check out and to review it and it's the Lakeshore Model JJ665 Portable CD Player

[@Recordology]

Ya those are cool.....

[@lizkrinsky5209]

Tangerine....

[@stevenj2380]

The only thing that could make these looks at these types of items 'spectacular', would be a kid-test. Tall order. So, I did watch, not tuned in really. As I have no past with any such record players, unfortunately.

[@MuzikJunky]

Made in Usa? Where’s Usa? 😉 Peace.