Monday, October 28, 2019

Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Scarce Vintage Sylvania Exponent 4/40

Scarce Vintage Sylvania Exponent 4/40 Solid State Complete Portable Turntable System w/Garrard Turntable

This scarce unit was made in 1965 and designed as a single unit to take your vinyl music anywhere you want, the beach, camping, wherever you have access to electricity, it is a unique hard to find piece of stereo equipment.  The entire unit was made by Sylvania, but the turn table itself is a Garrard made in England









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Friday, May 3, 2019

VINTAGE = Cool



Ultra-rare Sylvania record player, Model Exponent 4/40-1, with Garrard foldaway turntable, circa 1966. Works excellent. Includes original equipment cart (specifically made to "nest" with this unit), speakers, and spindle adapter. 16, 33, 45, and 78 speeds. Speakers store in the back when not in use. Has headphone jack and auxiliary input, but I have not tested these. Solid state, all transistor, no tubes.





SOLD



Vintage Sylvania Exponent 4/40 Portable Record Player Phonograph Garrard works. I plugged this unit in, hooked up the speakers, put an record on and it played. This unit has not been used in years. It's what you would call portable in its days. The thing ways nearly 50 pounds. The sound quality is very good. The volume works, but it tends to lower its volume wen turned up. But if you wiggle the knob the volume comes back up. I'm sure if you're looking at this unit you know how older sound equipment � gets scratchy after it hasn't been used in a long time. This may be able to be cleaned. The unit itself is super nice. It will make a great conversational piece or a daily user for you vintage record collection. The needle stylus is fine. Also auxiliary � hook up.� It's so ugly it's good looking.