Tefifon with Shure magnetic cartridge

[@ScottGrammer]

That's a GREAT mod - it made a real improvement.

[@JrGoonior]

Would love to hear "Cuba Baion" with this cart.. It might take some of the brightness away and flatten the audio curve.

[@5minuterevolutionary493]

gorgeous, just gorgeous on every level.

[@coondogtheman]

This thing sounds clean for 1950s tech. I wish they would release today's music on Tefifon. Nice mod with the cartridge. I played this video to google and some results came up. Sh Boom is the title but cannot find the artist. Some of the results are by other artists and some too modern like covers and re records. Shazam found nothing now google is showing nothing.

[@vapno92]

Well as Techmoan said, most of the music on TEFI format is unfortunately rather cheesy cover versions of famous songs...

[@coondogtheman]

@@vapno92 It would be nice if today's music was released on this format. That would be cool. Anything from the 50s through today.

[@GuidoPradel-v8n]

This title (Sh-Boom) was recorded in 1956 in Vienna by Klaus Alzner and his Orchestra with Die Swingsters, also released as flip side of "Rock around the clock" on 45/78 rpm "Harmona" (Austria) and "Club" or "Bertelsmann" (Germany) records. Have a look at discogs!

[@edtuckerartist]

Sh-Boom (Life Could Be A Dream) was written and first recorded on Atlantic Records' subsidiary label Cat Records by the R&B group The Chords on March 15, 1954.

[@edtuckerartist]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh-Boom

[@DougMcDave]

It sounds great! Why haven't I heard of this variation?

[@DannyFreiburg]

Schibum schibum ... ja dadadadadadadadadada

[@Zarkovision]

Verblüffend, was man aus der Technik rausholen kann. Ich habe 4 Tefifone, eines davon defekt. Bei einer Restaurierung wäre eine Umrüstung auf Shure eine Überlegung wert.

[@nobbyarmbruster]

Der Klang verbessert sich in jedem Fall mit einem Magnetsystem. Dazu werden die Bänder weniger abgenudelt, weil der Nadelträger besser nachgibt.

[@notmanatee2445]

Why did you put a shure cartridge in it and it sounds amazing for a piece of 1950s tech

[@hippsterhoppster1855]

The Shure N44 is a magnetic Cartridge ,sounds much better than the original Ceramic.

[@notmanatee2445]

It has much better bass and less hiss and more richness

[@will2741]

Was any rock n roll or cool jazz released in this format? Being well versed in how records are made, I am struggling to think how they could have made these carts. Serious tech!

[@robfriedrich2822]

It was popular music and cover versions only. The phono tape cartridges were expensive, so it wasn't good for experiments.

[@robfriedrich2822]

They recorded the tape on a metal tape, cut it of, pressed it into the vinyl tape, spliced it together, fixed with microscope and some manual editing the tension, that it has no click.

[@nobbyarmbruster]

@@robfriedrich2822 Producing a Tefi tape was much more complex than pressing a record. Also a reason why the record companies refused to produce Tefi cassettes.

[@theallknowingsause8940]

I wish this format had better music on it, it's a really cool music format but there's hardly anything worth listening to on it, lol

[@themac6356]

I don’t know, I kinda like the cheesy German easy-listening stuff. I own a Sabamobil and a couple of tapes for it that have some German jazz and pop hits. I find it to be relatively enjoyable, though I suppose this stuff isn’t particularly enthralling to listen to when compared to the mechanics of the device being really interesting lol.

[@nuggeth9197]

Not really a 'magnetic cartridge'. The tape is a really just a stretched out record. It has a needle following the groves, except instead of a disk shape, its in the form of a tape. But wonderful video!

[@hippsterhoppster1855]

I don´t mean the tape cartrige but the needle pickup cartridge is magnetic and not crystal like it was originaly..

[@danieldaniels7571]

Tell me you don’t know anything about phonograph cartridges without telling me you don’t know anything about phonograph cartridges.

[@Gennettor-nc8kx]

The video is unclear and shows little - is this a removable tape?

[@hippsterhoppster1855]

yes,removable cartridge but tape with grooves, not magnetic,there are more videos ,look for tefifon

[@anthonybrunotheodd]

I guess this a German cover of Life Could be Dream?

[@andrzejlisek]

What is the artist ant title of this song?

[@hippsterhoppster1855]

Sorry , the Artist are not written on the Cardridge and I dont have the outer Sleeve

[@andrzejlisek]

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[@toddmath6364]

Sounds like a cover of “Life Could Be a Dream”

[@Suddenlyits1960]

The song is a cover of “Sh-boom” which was a hit for the chords and crew cuts

[@Swingguido]

Sh-boom (Susanne, sag warum), Orchester Klaus Alzner, Die Swingsters, Wien 1956.

[@sdiburro1]

How long one of those cartridges last it’s a tape record

[@hippsterhoppster1855]

90 min.

[@sdiburro1]

@@hippsterhoppster1855 it lasts a long time are they only in that language do they have some in English

[@hippsterhoppster1855]

@@sdiburro1 I think they are only in german but not shure

[@JrGoonior]

I think the largest lasts almost 4 hours. I think Techmoan has one.

[@robfriedrich2822]

The longest tapes are up to 4 hours. Later they sold single loops, without cartridge, what didn't make any sense.