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12th Oct 2018, 5:40 pm | #1 |
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Dynatron Mazurka
Does anybody know how much this would be worth?
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12th Oct 2018, 7:36 pm | #2 |
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Re: Dynatron Mazurka
Straight to the point there ;-)
Seriously now, the best idea is to look on ebay and check completed listings -to see what similar kit (ie.e restored/unrestored/working/non working...whatever is your case) has actually sold for. Pay no attention to what people are asking as that means nothing.
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12th Oct 2018, 8:17 pm | #3 |
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Re: Dynatron Mazurka
I've not been watching such items with a view to having a sense of their cash value these days, but I think the usual turntable for this Mazurka model was the Garrard 4HF, which may or may not make a substantial (positive) difference to its worth as compared with, say, a Hacker Serenade, never mind later Dynatron players which shared the Mazurka name.
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12th Oct 2018, 10:12 pm | #4 |
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Re: Dynatron Mazurka
I can't quite see if this system does have a Garrard 4HF turntable, but it it does, you can soon search on ebay for what these turntables alone are listed for.
I have seen them listed for up to £300.00. That does not mean they sell for that. Your complete Mazurka stereophonic system is rare and I, and many other Members, I am sure, will appreciate its quality. As for what you can sell it for, I really don't know. There is a very limited market for those who would fully appreciate this very capable valved system.
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13th Oct 2018, 12:02 am | #5 |
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Re: Dynatron Mazurka
Google images suggests that the version with the 4HF has a different veneer, but a clearer and unmasked photo would help to decide.
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13th Oct 2018, 12:13 am | #6 |
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Re: Dynatron Mazurka
Yes Ben no preliminaries-that must be what we are here for?
Superficially it looks very similar to the EKCO 9 Octave Stereo System that I have ie a Primary Record Player on legs [sound baffles underneath] and a [rare] separate unit for Stereo, also on legs. Was the Marzuka Contemporary or later I wonder? Dave W |
14th Oct 2018, 12:04 pm | #7 |
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Re: Dynatron Mazurka
There is a full description of this RP on Vintage Audio Workshop, with video, I only found it by doing a search. It seems an excellent RP, but I have no idea how much it is worth.
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14th Oct 2018, 2:13 pm | #8 | |
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Re: Dynatron Mazurka
Quote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-dyF9kUvf4 The parts of the Mazurka featured there wound up going their separate ways, a common fate I suppose given the demand both for valve amplifiers, even quite modest ones as here, and for certain Garrard decks, whilst there's not much demand at all for a good floor-standing early '60s record player. I have a Dynatron Mazurka myself, which will stay intact while I have any say in the matter, and the link gives a handy summary of the repair work that's likely to be appropriate for its amplifier. A similar Mazurka was the player used in the music room of my first secondary school, 1970-72: hard to say much about its audio quality from memory, not least as the music master had a way of regularly dousing his discs with some or other fluid system that resulted in LPs having a continual surface hiss as though they'd been pressed in shellac. |
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15th Oct 2018, 5:20 am | #9 |
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Re: Dynatron Mazurka
I have one of these, it uses a Collaro Studio turntable.
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15th Oct 2018, 8:06 am | #10 |
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Re: Dynatron Mazurka
A couple of hundred if it's got a 4HF turnbtable, maybe £75 if not.
But as everyone says, it's a very nice machine and worth hanging onto if you like that kind of thing. I have one, but minus the add-on speaker and amp sub-chassis which bolts onto the main chassis. N. |