So, yesterday i was lucky enough to find a turntable, packed high on a shelf, among some DVD and tape players, deep in storage beneath a school stage. (We are busy putting on a production there and needed extra storage)
Being curious (and into vinyl) i asked about it, and was told that it was a donation along with a few DVD players and such a few years back, and they just hadn't gotten around to throwing it out yet, as they have no use for it. I offered to take it off their hands and so took it home.
I wasn't too hopeful that it would still work, with the amount of dust it was covered in, but decided it would be interesting anyway. I was wrong... a quick disassemble, clean and grease, and reassemble later, the thing looked like new, few scratches, no cracks, very clean :whistler: we all know what happened next...
Time to put an old, non-precious record on and see if it works, or just tears it to pieces. I'm glad to report, that it actually plays extremely well! For a belt drive with an extremely light aluminium platter, I'm impressed, there is no flutter, both on 33 and 45 RPM
The tonearm is carbon fiber, quite pretty looking, and it uses a P-mount cart. Auto return mechanism was stuck at first but that was solved but adding some grease to the innards. :rubhands:
I'm not sure what to do with it, as i have my Teac PX-550 on my system, maybe it would be a good backup...
No thread is complete without pics, so here they are: :2thumbs:
Being curious (and into vinyl) i asked about it, and was told that it was a donation along with a few DVD players and such a few years back, and they just hadn't gotten around to throwing it out yet, as they have no use for it. I offered to take it off their hands and so took it home.
I wasn't too hopeful that it would still work, with the amount of dust it was covered in, but decided it would be interesting anyway. I was wrong... a quick disassemble, clean and grease, and reassemble later, the thing looked like new, few scratches, no cracks, very clean :whistler: we all know what happened next...
Time to put an old, non-precious record on and see if it works, or just tears it to pieces. I'm glad to report, that it actually plays extremely well! For a belt drive with an extremely light aluminium platter, I'm impressed, there is no flutter, both on 33 and 45 RPM
The tonearm is carbon fiber, quite pretty looking, and it uses a P-mount cart. Auto return mechanism was stuck at first but that was solved but adding some grease to the innards. :rubhands:
I'm not sure what to do with it, as i have my Teac PX-550 on my system, maybe it would be a good backup...
No thread is complete without pics, so here they are: :2thumbs:
