Ethan's phonograph demonstration
WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast
WIBC
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Simple Quarters has helped over 3,000 families sell their homes in Indiana. |
| 0:04.6 | And it's really important to me, too, why we're getting to do this is that you get to go be with me. |
| 0:09.1 | I get to go be with my husband. |
| 0:11.1 | Simple Quarters was the best option for me because I ended up connecting with Ronnie on a personal level. |
| 0:16.4 | There was no BS involved. |
| 0:18.9 | It was simply straightforward, to the point, honesty, and that is what made me go |
| 0:24.9 | with Simple Quarters. Call Simple Quarters 317, 900 Home. |
| 0:30.0 | Did you write the book of love and do you have faith in God? So this is a big thing you brought into the studio. |
| 0:38.3 | Yes, it is a rather large antique item. |
| 0:42.3 | I have brought in my Victor V phonograph. |
| 0:45.3 | This was a fairly expensive item in its day. |
| 0:48.3 | It sold for $60, which is the equivalent to about, I think it was $1,600 today. |
| 0:54.8 | Oh, wow. Yeah, with the rate of inflation. |
| 0:57.0 | Adjusted. Yeah, adjusted. And this item is worth between $2,000 to $2,500 retail. The Victor Fives are very desirable among collectors, especially this lovely oak wooden horn that's known as the Victor Spear Point Horn. |
| 1:12.1 | This is a relic that's about 115 years old. |
| 1:15.6 | It was first manufactured in 1910, and it continued to be manufactured up until about |
| 1:22.3 | around the mid-1920s when more advanced machines were being introduced, including the Victor Orthophonic, |
| 1:29.9 | which had its 100th anniversary this weekend. It was introduced fall of 1925, November 2nd. |
| 1:37.4 | And so we have had 100 years of orthophonic sound, and that is the pinnacle of mechanical sound reproduction. |
| 1:46.2 | And what I find so fascinating about these devices is that they can be played without means of |
| 1:53.1 | electricity, and they sound amazing. |
| 1:55.6 | Right now I have one of my favorite demonstration discs on there, and I like it so much |
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