Comments on: Turner Microphones circa 1970

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 23:55:46 +0000

I had never heard about the funeral home business story before, but I do know that when Turner was in Cedar Rapids, IA they went out of business when a company by the name of TELEX bought them and discontinued the whole business. I have a vintage Turner 500 model, and as far as high impedance microphones go, it’s the best I’ve ever seen.

By: Rene

Rene — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 06:39:10 +0000

Hello Turner fans,

I use 5 button cell LR-44 in series, and shrink them together with
tube shrink. It fits nicely into the battery holder on the back of the M+3 or JM+3, or the RK60, RK66, and RK76
LR-44 are very cheap on ebay
73`s
Rene, PA7R

By: FRANK E KUSKAK

FRANK E KUSKAK — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 03:36:31 +0000

i have a tuner m+3b i need a battery for it what size do i need can you still buy them thank u

By: FRANK E KUSKAK

FRANK E KUSKAK — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 03:34:15 +0000

i got a turner m+3b i need a battery for it whats size do i need to get it working it a four pin hand held

By: Bruce downunder

Bruce downunder — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 01:42:47 +0000

brucedownunder at virginbroadband.com.au

By: Bruce downunder

Bruce downunder — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 01:41:14 +0000

In reply to Earl.

I would be interested in the turner plus 3b decals –did you have any luck in locating them ,please.

Thanks ,I hope you were lucky –I’m restoring mine with the crinkle finish black paint –would love the decals -even if anybody has a junked one ..would buy it.

Thanks

Bruce

By: Earl

Earl — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 21:57:24 +0000

Sirs: I am actively in the cb radio thing, in my opinion, the turner +3 is the best mic ever made. My question is where might I find parts and original replacement decals and emblems, as I restore everyone I can find. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much! Earl

By: Bafflegab

Bafflegab — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:07:12 +0000

No, funeral homes were just an early adopter market for small PA systems, and also many of them already had an amplifier and speaker in the form of a Hammond organ. Usually they did NOT have a Leslie, rather they used the Hammond speaker and amp.

Later on most of them went the other way, putting in an installed system and running organ and service audio through both. An inordinate number of them bought Mcintosh power amps and for years the audio sharks would go to all the funeral parlors in search of old Macs to ship them to the Far East.

The common denominator probably is that funeral homes tend to buy everything from a single source and those included Turner then, and later the funeral house distributors picked McIntosh. Macs were low maintenance, reliable, and combined high fidelity with 600 ohm or 70 volt outputs for distribution systems, and I have been told, but can’t confirm, they sold to the funeral business distributors at quite a low price as long as they sold only to the funeral industry.

Turner is now out of business but its classic Portiboy, manufactured by successors, remains the small block Chevy or M1911 of the embalming machine business.

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 04:11:37 +0000

Turner has left the mic business to concentrate on their primary product line: embalming machines.

The original reason they got in the mic business was that funeral directors found existing mics insufficient for use in the funeral parlor. Maybe the formaldehyde fumes attacked the capsules or something.