Philips Portable Record Player!

[@thedarkdescent2387]

These Phillips players were better than most home record players in the 60s. They’re still probably the best portables ever made

[@neilmansfield8329]

People want these good record players for their old and new digital records.They are much better than a crosley

[@CaiusRo]

Philips made some really good stuff. Have some from them too. Very good machines

[@rodh2168]

At 18 I went to Australia in 1965 for a couple of years. I got a job working in the geology lab on an oil rig in the Oz desert. As entertainment I bought this record player and 7 LP records. That was my entertainment...same 7 records over and over. Now back in Canada since 1967 I still have the record player and the 7 records. My player still has the "leather-like" cardboard case as well. The 7 records became the core of my 3500 album collection all now digitalized but can be played on a very nice system if I so chose. Philips player is on the shelf waiting for restoration. Thanks for the memories.

[@forwards2114]

Que genial tu historia con el tocadiscos, gracias por compartirla,lo cómpraste en su época de oro

[@shellac4682]

Nice little player from a time when the industry knew how to do this. At 7:30 you don't have the belt on the middle drive wheel whereas later you do. Perhaps that was the source of the distortion you heard during the first playback?

[@Recordology]

Good catch!!!! I didn’t realize that at the time!

[@saurabhghosh398]

Greetings from Calcutta, India. This a picnic record player. Ingenious indeed.

[@ronaldweed6103]

I LOVE THIS. Man 1960 GREAT Machine!!!. This here brings alot of memories,I just wish this was made today,I play Michael Jackson Dirty Diana on it ha!!!!!! I never seen nor owed one but this give me JOY of those years. My parents & I were so very happy...thx.

[@musicnerd72]

Me being the mechanical nerd I am, the combo of a belt drive and idler/rim drive is just simply awesome! Never seen that before! 👍

[@arnoldtolker3505]

Das ist ja nicht zu glauben! Genau so einen hatten meine Eltern! Sie haben Picknik gemacht draußen auf der Wiese, im Wald... und nach dem Essen wurde getanzt! Ich muss so 8 Jahre alt gewesen sein!

[@musicnerd72]

What a great memory to have!

[@UncleDansVintageVinyl]

I think that this is the coolest turntable that you've featured here. Totally awesome, man!

[@kevinpatrickmacnutt]

Funny enough since my stop button on my Philips GA212 went a little wonky, I have to stop my platter the exact same way as you do on this Philips portable. By the way you really need to get yourself a Philips GA212, you'd really love it as it has these green electrostatic controls. Since it is a popular vintage unit, parts are pretty plentiful.

[@vwestlife]

Only one L in Philips.

[@cpta03]

Very nice! I think the Philips sounds better than today’s suitcase players. Thanks for the video!

[@JOSEEYW]

They had a similar Philips record player at school when I was a kid (70's) This brought back some good memories!

[@TonyBanks21]

Another fabulous video !

[@ericwong6531]

A neat looking little portable record player. Pretty cool!

[@festidious2644]

Hello: Interesting channel and great videos. My dad had a Philips turntable that I wish I had saved as I think it would be very rare. It was in the shape of the Philips logo with a plastic maroon bottom and a cream/white top. The cartridge was very much like the one in this video only original. I think the cartridge had a dip in the middle at the front and the tone arm was around 1 cm in diameter (round). My memories are very old but I think it may have fit a 10 inch record with a 12 inch overlapping (it may have fit a 12 inch). It had a felt mat the same colour as the base. Also, it was like a standard turntable that needed to plug into an amplifier. I am kicking myself now for only having the memory and not the actual turntable. Have you ever seen one of these? Just interested. We had several yellow children's 78s but ours appeared more opaque than the one you played. One in particular that I remember is Sleigh Ride by The Ray Conniff Singers.

[@themadcoachman]

The middle set of batteries should face the opposite direction, you put them all in the same direction

[@UrbanoDagrippino]

Record player from this era in wooden cases are cool

[@Recordology]

Agreed!

[@rastaman5105]

I have that recordplayer to , and the sound is very good for that recordplayer , fr4om the 60,s, greetings from me from Assen in the Netherlands !!

[@CounterRhythms]

That's a very cool record player. The heavy platter makes all the difference. Someone should make aftermarket heavy platters for the Crosleys and Victrola etc, lol.

[@timfaracy754]

Maybe the first record played wasn't lying flat on the platter which caused the flutter, it looks like the record and tonearm were rising and falling a bit . At the end the record looked more level.

[@marcoantonio-fj4uw]

❤👍👏

[@svatopluksroubek7928]

This is a real portable suitcase turntable. The suitcase turntables made by us in Tesla Litovel were bigger and had a normal chassis, with a possibility to join to an outside amplifier / receiver.

[@spacemissing]

The platter is cast zinc. Fairly heavy, non-magnetic, and relatively durable, but sometimes it will crumble without apparent cause.

[@Recordology]

Interesting!

[@ralphhoskins2115]

Such a cool record player… Phillips always has style

[@neilmansfield8329]

Yes this us a great children’s record player

[@MishimaToshiro]

hi great player!hey what was that funny music 9:36? thanks for your reviews

[@MishimaToshiro]

oh I found out lol

[@plan7a]

That starting/activating action (moving slightly right at first to start the motor) was still used by Philips in the 70's! (Although in the 70's it incorporated a two note tone/sound which played over the speaker and which was audible when recording a record to tape; something this one doesn't seem to do. This meant you had to be careful to start recording at the time just after you placed the needle down so as to avoid the tones; otherwise they featured at the start of every track/recording you made). Having to move the tone arm to the very middle was also something you still had to do in the 70's also! (Goes to show the mechanism lasted for quite a while, therefore!).

[@radiotvphononut]

That record player was also sold under the Mercury brand and advertised on many Mercury, Philips, and Smash LP inner-sleeves during the '60s (there was also an AC-only vacuum-tube amplified Philips-made record player that was advertised on those inner-sleeves). Over the years, I've seen many battery-operated portable record players from the '60s and '70s and these Philips models are among some of the better ones. There were also companies who made battery operated portables that used a full-size record changer, which I have a few of and will one day be doing repair videos on them.

[@vwestlife]

Yes, shango066 did a video about the Mercury-branded version of this player. He was impressed by its build quality.

[@mysteryc07]

I have watched this several times. I seriously need one of these! Can it handle a regular acrylic platter mat? I would think that it would help stability in playing lps, especially the thinner ones.

[@Recordology]

Sounds like a good idea to me!

[@mysteryc07]

@@Recordology Thanks!

[@Daniel61248]

D cell also mine needs 6 of them i use recharchable ones for my 1962 philips

[@0386rm]

I'd like to find one of those some day.

[@asbmp]

I want a battery operated record player so I can listen to my records on the road

[@mandispalding5634]

Where do you get the replacements belts from? I am in Australia woukd like to repair the player we have.

[@projam7534]

I have one of these players, I am new to vinyl. Do these players damage your records like i've heard other suitcase style players do

[@Parnakas2]

Was wondering how many LP-s would you be able to play before batteries are dead? Probably not too many...

[@JOSEEYW]

Do you know what are those brown Vocalion records made of? Last week I got a couple at an estate sale only because I found them unusual, one from 1916 and the other one from 1921 for 50 cents each!

[@Hitman-cf6bu]

Very cool to see! It reminds me of my first kiddie record player in a blue denim style finish, that I played my little golden book records, and other kids records on. What is the tracking weight on that arm?

[@JoeOrber]

Great video and great portable record player. Did you try the line out connection?

[@Recordology]

Not yet!

[@luiscorreia5347]

This turntable have a pre amp or i need one to plug modern speakers?

[@stephenpritti2280]

Have 2 of that same set it's ok

[@rachelrodgers9171]

9:37 I really love that tune on that fast record. What is the name of that melody?

[@frasiercrane6987]

Don’t Cry by Emile’s Telegraphic Transmission Device

[@neilmansfield8329]

What a g eat 78 record

[@davidoviedosolano496]

Yo tengo un tocsdiscos

[@neilmansfield8329]

The diamond needle is better