Old-Type Narcom - question
Posted by: uem on 07 August 2002
Hi everyone - Who can help me with this?
With my NAC 82 (older model) I got a remote control unit, which apparently is now discontinued.
It’s wider than the new plastic ones, and -this is the main difference – has two full sets of pre-amp selector buttons; one set on the right for the main-signal to power amp and another set on left for the recording selections.
I much prefer this old-fashioned model RC to the new fancy (however beautiful and flashy it may be !!) Flash RC, which I got with my CDS 2.
Where can I get another of these old beauties? Is it still sold officially or via a reliable second-hand market?
Thanks for any hints & tips
Urs
With my NAC 82 (older model) I got a remote control unit, which apparently is now discontinued.
It’s wider than the new plastic ones, and -this is the main difference – has two full sets of pre-amp selector buttons; one set on the right for the main-signal to power amp and another set on left for the recording selections.
I much prefer this old-fashioned model RC to the new fancy (however beautiful and flashy it may be !!) Flash RC, which I got with my CDS 2.
Where can I get another of these old beauties? Is it still sold officially or via a reliable second-hand market?
Thanks for any hints & tips
Urs
quote:
Originally posted by Richard:
I thought the older Narcom was exclusively for the first generation 52....? I'm not sure it will work with your 82 which I think uses the standard Philips RC5 control set.
Richard,
I think you're referring to these, but they are not Narcoms.
cheers, Martin
[This message was edited by Martin Payne on THURSDAY 08 August 2002 at 13:37.]
This is a Narcom.
cheers, Martin
cheers, Martin
Urs 
What happens when you’re a 34-year old hifi nerd who spends too much time at his desk? I’ll tell you what happens. You drop your remote control.
OK, that can happen to all of us. But when the remote’s case is nearly pried open upon impact, you remember how you found the previous owner’s grime – collected since the days of the first six-digit serial numbers – mildly repulsive when you bought that second-hand 52, so you seize the opportunity and take the remote apart in order to clean it.
After you open the case, no fewer than 29 little push-keys, not unlike something manufactured by Playmobil, are scattered all over the floor. After gathering your senses (and the itsy-bitsy little keys) you lather up in the kitchen sink and apply a vast array of different brushes to all parts of the remote control. Eager to derive pleasure from reassembling your remote control, you blow dry the parts in order to speed up the drying process. (Pictured in the background is one of those tea thingies in which you ‘tumble-dry’ the push-keys as they bounce around in the hot air stream.)
Wondering where on earth the two green keys (Volume?) and the four grey keys go, and whether there was any significance in the colour coding, and whether any of this matters, you consult the forum in search of a photographic representation of said NARCOM remote control unit. After a basking in the brief glory of success, you discover and are immediately fazed by the fact that Martin Payne’s NARCOM has a much larger number of grey keys.
A moment of contemplation passes and suddenly a crazy idea begins to form in your mind … Your very own NARCOM colour coding scheme?
Thomas
OK, that can happen to all of us. But when the remote’s case is nearly pried open upon impact, you remember how you found the previous owner’s grime – collected since the days of the first six-digit serial numbers – mildly repulsive when you bought that second-hand 52, so you seize the opportunity and take the remote apart in order to clean it.
After you open the case, no fewer than 29 little push-keys, not unlike something manufactured by Playmobil, are scattered all over the floor. After gathering your senses (and the itsy-bitsy little keys) you lather up in the kitchen sink and apply a vast array of different brushes to all parts of the remote control. Eager to derive pleasure from reassembling your remote control, you blow dry the parts in order to speed up the drying process. (Pictured in the background is one of those tea thingies in which you ‘tumble-dry’ the push-keys as they bounce around in the hot air stream.)
Wondering where on earth the two green keys (Volume?) and the four grey keys go, and whether there was any significance in the colour coding, and whether any of this matters, you consult the forum in search of a photographic representation of said NARCOM remote control unit. After a basking in the brief glory of success, you discover and are immediately fazed by the fact that Martin Payne’s NARCOM has a much larger number of grey keys.
A moment of contemplation passes and suddenly a crazy idea begins to form in your mind … Your very own NARCOM colour coding scheme?
Thomas