Scott console

[EVBoy]

Does anyone recognize this Scott console? It's at an auction.

 

[Sam Cogley]

Turntable and brass faceplate...excellent odds that it's tubed.

 

[spartanmanor]

looks older very well could be mono.

 

[Sam Cogley]

looks older very well could be mono.

That's a Garrard Type A or a very close cousin (it looks to have a counterweight instead of the spring-set tracking force on the RC series). Stereo-era stuff.

 

[spartanmanor]

It also looks like it has two speakers...

 

[Saint Johnny]

HH Scott? Or that other bastardized version of the original EH Scott? The one with the musical notes in the logo.
http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=182839
http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=181985
It's from the late 50s or early 60s and it's tubed, but not of HH Scott heritage, it's more than likely made for 'Scott' by Stromberg-Carlson.

 

[EVBoy]

I found out it is a 1963 Provincial.

 

[Saint Johnny]

I will say those knobs look like HH Scott to me though. The receiver looks something like a vertically oriented 340B with a gold instead of silver face.

 

[Saint Johnny]

I found out it is a 1963 Provincial.

That would be the cabinet style. It's what that provincial cabinet contains that's of much more importance.

 

[gadget73]

That looks like an RC88 to me. The A was a different color, but its in the same family. Late 50s to early 60s. Late mono or early stereo kit, depending. In a cab that wide, I'd say more likely stereo. It should be an HH Scott if its from that era. Quite likely to be nice stuff.

 

[Dadbar]

There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of info on the HH Scott consoles- probably because they didn't sell a lot of them (unlike Fisher)....or equally likely- the ones they did sell didn't survive the millennium. Seems that Scott used the consoles to experiment with tube-transistor hybrids during the early to mid 1960's...maybe it was a parts-bin clearing exercise to make way for the wild new world of transistors...we may never know. Anyway, I suspect that the model you are looking at may be one of those tube preamp/power output transistor hybrid jobbers....the two-piece later model knobs mounted on the right side of the faceplate and the Garrard changer are tipoffs that something transitional may be lurking under the hood. To see a schematic see the one-electron site (http://www.mcmlv.org/Archive/HiFi/HHScott-Exeter-Berkley_schematics.pdf as well as http://www.mcmlv.org/Archive/HiFi/HHScott-Exeter-Berkley_service.pdf). This may give you an idea of what to expect.

My parents had a later model HH Scott console that was totally transistorized...ca 1968. Theirs was the mid line "Berkeley" model (There were 5 models Copley, Exeter, Berkeley, Andover & Carlisle). It had a Dual 1010 changer mounted on a massive spring-suspended platform to quell accoustic feedback (tradename "Isomount"). The unit worked pretty well but hasn't been touched in years since my dad died many years ago. I've attached some pictures of that unit that I took a while ago....for comparison's sake. On all of those generation solid state units, the knobs are left of the tuner dial. If you look closely you can see the round Scott "Field Effect Transistor" logo just above the signal strength meter. In its heyday it sounded pretty decent for what it was. These units even had guitar and microphone inputs. I wonder how many teens wound up blowing out some of the drivers and smoking the outputs......

Good luck with your console if you wind up getting it.