I have my grandparents' mahogany boxed wind-up gramophone - steel playing arm and the volume is controlled by the amount the two front doors are opened. I also have a great stack of 78rpm recordings to go with it. When we were young, if the neighbours next door were making a racket (which they did quite often) my father would make me place the machine in the empty chimney piece - and then play Tito Gobbi singing "Largo al Factotum" at full volume...

Now that's what I call a good result with old equipment...