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What Fisher Model Console?
Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2023 5:57 am
by Hi-Fi-Mogul
Re: What Fisher Model Console?
Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2023 12:12 pm
by William
That's not a bad looking unit, but it looks like it has the same Garrard changer you are working on.
Bill
Re: What Fisher Model Console?
Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2023 3:51 pm
by Hi-Fi-Mogul
William wrote: ↑Thu Apr 27, 2023 12:12 pm
That's not a bad looking unit, but it looks like it has the same Garrard changer you are working on.
Bill
Bill,
I believe that is a Garrard 3000 record changer, of the lineage
AT-6/AT-60.
That one I WOULD work on !
Re: What Fisher Model Console?
Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2023 4:56 pm
by chazglenn3
Gone!
Re: What Fisher Model Console?
Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2023 6:55 pm
by hermitcrab
We have a couple Fishers on our FB marketplace... a statesman unit with the weird cabinet that juts out in the center ... they want 500 bucks , been up there for a couple months , another about 5 mins away is a Diplomat a smaller unit they are asking 125 and I am surprised no one has snapped that one up , both look to be in excellent condition... If I had room.... sigh
Re: What Fisher Model Console?
Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2023 11:25 pm
by William
There's always room for one more, Elton. At least that's what I keep telling myself.
Bill
Re: What Fisher Model Console?
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2023 12:59 am
by TC Chris
All of those little Fishers shown are good looking and restrained in design. Between the Provincials, French & Italian, the Italians come out way ahead. The electronics appear to fall into the nothing-special category, but we have all heard devices that sound better than they should. Maybe there's a lesson here about the specifications wars.
Chris Campbell
Re: What Fisher Model Console?
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2023 3:44 pm
by Firedome
The 29/290T chassis iirc were all-in-one tuner/preamp/amp units, SE 6BQ5, often with Bugle Boy/Amperex output tubes and a number of Telefunken 12ax7s in the preamp, though Fisher did start using some US sourced 12a_7 tubes around 1963. But as always with Fisher the circuit designs were excellent and the resulting sound and tuner sensitivity was also, though lower powered.
The furniture designs were usually nice but like many others certain styles started to get goopy later in the '60s with gaudy mediterranean influences creeping in, even red speaker cloth and Flamenco-like frilly speaker grilles.
Re: What Fisher Model Console?
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2023 4:10 pm
by electra225
I'm sorry, guys, but I am not impressed with most of Fisher's cabinets.