Supplies

As a public service we are providing information where collectors may obtain styli, pickup cartridges, turntables and arms, equalizers, noise suppressors, record cleaners, records and transcriptions, envelopes, radio programs, tapes, and miscellaneous supplies.

• Antique Electronic Supply, 6221 S. Maple Ave., Tempe, AZ 85283. Phone: (602) 820-5411, FAX: (602) 820-4643 or (800) 706-6789. These folks provide tubes, parts, books, and supplies for vintage electronic equipment restoration. Ask for their free catalog.

• Bill's Sound Center, 7513 South Westnedge Ave., Portage, MI 49002. Phone: (616) 327-7285. Bill often has reconditioned turntables and changers, many three speed (78, 45, 33 1/3 rpm), with quality pickups and styli. He also has a large supply of pickup styli for a great variety of cartridges. Talk to him about vintage radios and other electronic equipment which he has available from time to time.

• Diapason, 5 Catamount Road, Tewksbury, MA 01876. Phone: (508) 851-0543. Diapason provides various archive turntable models. The largest can handle 16 inch transcription discs. All are variable speed and quartz controlled with digital speed readout. Has precision tonearm with removeable SME-style headshells.

• Esoteric Sound, 4813 Wallbank Ave., Downers Grove, IL 60515, mails out periodic auction lists which include records, tapes, literature, equipment, and supplies. A good source of multispeed turntables (including 78 rpm), cartridges (Shure and Stanton), styli for 78s , strobe discs, the Re-equalizer (turnover and rolloff compensator), and a variety of noise reduction devices.

• Gaylord Bros., Box 4901, Syracuse, NY 13221-4901. Phone: 8 am to 7 pm EST (800) 448-6160, FAX (800) 272-3412. Gaylord publishes an Archival Storage Materials & Conservation Supplies catalog and, among an immense variety of items, provides boxes, supports, and archival sleeves for 16 inch transcription discs.

• K-A-B Electro-Acoustics, P. O. Box 2922, Plainfield, NJ 07062-0922. Phone: (908) 754-1479. K-A-B provides phono cartridges, turntables, the Souvenir vintage sound processor, graphic equalizers, a variety of styli including elliptical types for 78s that fit the Stanton 500 pickup cartridge, headphones, Nitty Gritty record cleaning equipment, record sleeves, assorted publications and miscellaneous supplies.

• Nauck's Vintage Records, 6323 Inway Dr., Spring, TX 77389-3643. Phone: (713) 370-7899, FAX (713) 251-7023. International dealers in a wide variety of vintage 78 rpm and cylinder phonograph records. Also Edison Diamond Discs, radio transcriptions and novelty records. Naucks' provides record auction lists, books, as well as turntables and audio gear. All Gramophone Adventures' books are available here for credit card purchase.

• Packburn Electronics Inc., P. O. Box 335 Dewitt, NY 13214-0335. Phone: (315) 472-5644. Packburn makes the Model 323A Audio Noise Suppressor which is designed to suppress ticks, pops, clicks, crackles, and scratches in a wide variety of recorded media.

• Polyline Corporation, 1233 Rand Road, Des Plaines, IL 60016. Phone: (847) 390-7744, FAX (847) 390-9886. PolyWest Corporation, 16018 Adelante Street, Unit C, Irwindale, CA 91702. Phone: (818) 969-8555, FAX (818) 969-2267. These firms publish a catalog featuring a wide variety of audio recording and duplicating supplies.

• Record Finder. P. O. Box 1047, Glen Allen, VA 23060. Phone: (804) 266-1154, FAX (804) 264-9660. They publish a bimonthly newspaper containing record auction lists of 78s, 45s, LPs and transcriptions covering a wide range of performers. Want lists are published. Also sell six speed turntables for vintage and modern discs, the Esoteric Re-equalizer, truncated elliptical (TE) styli for 78s that fit the Stanton 500 pickup cartridge, record envelopes plus many incidental publications as well as other supply items.

• Yesterday USA Superstation, 2001 Plymouth Rock, Richardson, TX 75081 USA. E-mail: bill@yesterdayusa.com. Audio via phone: (972) 889-2OTR. Fax: (972) 889-2FAX. Phones: Main station number (972) 889-YUSA, the Sunday Night Live Show (972) 889-TALK, (972) 889-BILL. YUSA broadcasts old time radio (OTR) programs virtually 24 hrs. daily seven days a week. This is a listener supported station. The main C-band satellite address is G5, 7, audio subcarrier 6.8 MHz wideband. Another address is G1, 24, audio subcarrier 7.43 MHz wideband. It's also carried by various cable systems throughout the country and is available worldwide via the Internet. Listening to this station is one way to make contact with many OTR enthusiasts and to locate sources of recorded programs as well as other items of interest.

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