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Schaub-Lorenz Music Center website

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DrSchaub

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Hi Radio and Tape-recorder Enthusiasts

This year I have developed a dedicated and comprehensive website about the Schaub-Lorenz Music Center.

Link: http://www.ilove-schaub-lorenz-music-centers.com.

Content
• Electronic Time Capsule I bought on eBay
• The Schaub-Lorenz Music Center (BBG)
• The 5001, 5005 and 6000 models
• Technical Data
• A Brief History of the BBG (Music Center)
• The Patents
• The Inventors
• Interviews with Inventors
• Troubleshooting Faults
• Miscellaneous section (For Sale, Odds & Sods, Events)
• Archive
• Links
• Contact

Additional information
If you have any additional information which you would like to share with me, for example, about about the inventors or the actual numbers of machines made (evidence/sources needed), or know anything more about the production and marketing of these machines not mentioned on this website, please do not hesitate to get in touch with me. All helps...

Feedback
I should be interested to hear what you think of the website, especially if I have missed something important. You can also contact me via the Contact portal in the website's main menu.

Circulate website link
Please feel free to send my website link to other interested parties.

Regards
Dr Schaub
 
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This is a very interesting site ! However the menu system makes it a bit boring to use.
You should have longer pages and minimize the number of menu entries.
Still, a great resource !
It would be great if you could post schematics, show the various upgrades on them, and also add a section for spare parts (recommended relays and how to install them, how to replace the magnetic tape, etc.)
 
A beautiful piece of history. Boy I would want one of those. The interview was interesting too. Thank you for sharing such an item of audio history. :thmbsp:
 
Me too ! I just missed one on eBay but shipping it is another trouble.
There is even a stereo version (model 6000).
The interviews are great as well. Amazing to see that the tape players themselves had some sort of after-life in the USA and then in Europe.
What puzzles me is how they got the tape to keep good and straight contact with the head block. If you read the 3M story about their 3-inch 32-track prototype, their main trouble was to keep the tape in full contact with the head assembly, and the physic laws can't allow that unless you use a vacuum pump to "push" the tape against the heads, like in quadruplex video recorders.
Another trouble: what if you find a unit with a defect tape ? 4 inch is quite a problem to replace. Unless you have a batch specially made for you by a tape manufacturer and I guess this WILL be expensive.
What really amazes me after the technical side, is to hear those old radio programs.
I once happened to get late 1940s german radio tapes which contained various type of musics. You really feeled like radios wanted to spread (again) foreign music which the nazis prohibited. Anyhow...
 
But a machine like the 3M 32 track would more likely have those problems due to the faster tape speeds they'd use for studio work. A domestic machine like the Schaub-Lorenz would run tape at speeds closer to 3 3/4 ips so those air currents would be much less of an issue.
 
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