In a Nutshell
Vinyl is coming back and you better be prepared for this revival. The "Saturn" is not only an unshakable work horse, it is an adornment for every home, a centerpiece for your and your guests eyes to gaze at - and - even your kids can manage it - unattended - it's all automatic

Introduction:
Vinyl is coming back, and CD sales are sagging. New record shops are opening everywhere. New record players are being offered, since demand is higher than the available vintage stock. Obviously inspired and impressed by the eminent 20th century event of the first successful manned mission to the moon on July 20th, 1969 the Canadian Consumer Electronics producer Electrohome in Kitchener, Ontario launched a series of stereo record players and radio combos in 1970, one year after this event. Four types were produced, with/without a radio, and with/without a tulip shaped floor pedestal. The heart of the sets is a turntable made by renowned BSR (Birmingham Sound Reproducers) Limited of Great Britain, one of the most prolific and experienced turntable manufacturers. The stereos came with two spherical black anodized metal eyeball speakers on various own stands. The machine plays 12" 10" or 7" records with 16, 33, 45 or 78 rpm. It works as an automatic record changer, being capable of delivering almost 4 hours of uninterrupted playing pleasure. It has a headphone jack and 4 jacks for auxiliary in and outputs. So, you can connect other audio equipment like a tuner, a tape deck, a CD player, mp3 player or iPod to the amplifiers. Here we have the early model Saturn, the tulip stand equipped sister of the Apollo 860 model. My experience after having restored and sold many of these space age stereos is that dedicated phonographs without the ballast of a radio are preferred. People try to sell them for up to $800 (ref.2).

Additional information:
ref. 1.     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrohome
ref. 2.     http://www.kijiji.ca/v-art-collectibles/city-of-toronto/1970s-electrohome-apollo-space-age-bubble-in-chrome/1026515217
ref. 3.     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbiJSzjEhjo

About my Record Changer:
The unit is in mint condition, cosmetically and technically. The highly reflective but semitransparent smoked acrylic bubble hood has no cracks or scratches and only minor unoffending scuff marks. The structured plastic of the base has its original deep black with no marks, no dust corners, no dents on the metal parts. The knobs look like new. The speakers have retained their velvet black surface with no scratches or dents. As usual the 4" PM speakers had lost their cone surronds, and have been restored. All speaskers, unused or abused, have shot speaker surrounds, that need to be restored or the speakers replaced by new 4" speakers. The original yoyo stands are impeccable too with no dents or damages. The player works flawlessly in all operating modes, with no glitches and its sound quality is impeccable, loud and clear and without hum. The filter capacitors have been temporarily doubled in value, to make sure there is no remaining hum. There is no indication that the motor is stressed when performing the extra load during record changing, as is often the case in older wrongly or insufficiently lubricated units.
Summarizing this 1970 Electrohome Saturn 861U record changer serves all your vinyl and most of your connectivity needs, and represents a lovely and decorative piece of 20th century space age design. I let the pictures speak for themselves, and wish I could do the same for the sound quality (click on thumbnail 23 or go directly to youtube (ref.3) to watch a 6 minute video). Please e-mail me (Kris) for any questions, ich spreche Deutsch, je parle Français.

For the historians only: After the Mercury program had proven that manned spaceflight was possible, the Apollo program was launched to do space exploration around (but not on) the Moon. Speaking to Congress and the Nation, President John F. Kennedy on May 25, 1961 radically altered the direction of the Apollo program by saying: "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important in the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish" (pict.25). The projected price tag was an incredible $25 billion dollars. The Apollo program included eleven manned flights, designated Apollo 7 through 17. On July 16-24, 1969 Apollo 11 (Columbia and Eagle) on a Saturn V with the astronauts Neil A. Armstrong (commander), Michael Collins (CM pilot), Edwin E. (Buzz) Aldrin Jr. (LM pilot) (pict.26) accomplished the first manned lunar landing and lunar surface exploration (EVA). The event in the early 70's sparked a world-wide "space age" touch in music, arts, and basic commodity design.
Early success of Canadian Clairtone ("Project G") convinced Electrohome to adapt the Canadian government's new satellite communication strategy for the home market ("Hemisphere 80", CIRCA 75, never realized). Electrohome's design director Gordon Duern and junior designer Keith McQuarrie in 1966 designed Apollo 860 for Electrohome as part of a previously founded Circa Product Group. Its satellite eyeball speakers, and its smoked acrylic bubble lid exemplified futurism. According to the Design Canada report, the company wanted to create a dynamic image to appeal to the growing teenage market ("Now generation"). The tulip stands are said to have been inspired by Finnish designer Eero Saarinen's [1910-1961] famous tulip tables and chairs of 1956.

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