First High End Turntable
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Back in the late 60's or early 70's I had a Transcriptor TT similar, but not identical, to the one seen in Clockwork Orange.
It had some great features I wish my SME had: Namely, a camel hair brush that tracked the record just upstream of the needle while the record was plating; A little brush that wiped the needle when it returned to rest; And, a built-in strobe.
Very cool.
It had some great features I wish my SME had: Namely, a camel hair brush that tracked the record just upstream of the needle while the record was plating; A little brush that wiped the needle when it returned to rest; And, a built-in strobe.
Very cool.
The first that would have been considered high end was the Techniques SP-10 MK-II purchased in the mid to late 70's if I recall correctly. My next was the original VPI with a Souther arm, and then another VPI and finally another VPI.
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Think there was a Transcriptor table for sale on Audiogon not too long back
I wish I still had it. I left it with my brother while going to graduate school and it disappeared along with a beautiful Radford preamp/amp.
The Transcriptor was a real chick magnet...Watching those big brass pucks glinting in the candlelight...Very romantic.
Myles,
My first decent TT was a Planar 3 also with the vaunted Grace F9E cartridge and Grace 707 MKII arm. All in all a very decent setup and I still have it stored in a closet. At the time I thought the $100+ cost of the F9E was crazy expensive but bought it anyway. The first stylus survived for about a year until my wife removed it with her dust cloth.
My first decent TT was a Planar 3 also with the vaunted Grace F9E cartridge and Grace 707 MKII arm. All in all a very decent setup and I still have it stored in a closet. At the time I thought the $100+ cost of the F9E was crazy expensive but bought it anyway. The first stylus survived for about a year until my wife removed it with her dust cloth.
OK years ago, my ex-wife wanted to buy a Chanel suit (circa mid '80s) probably ran at that time for around $1700. I looked at her in horror about the cost and she cooly looked at me and said, well it's the price of one of your cartridges
OK years ago, my ex-wife wanted to buy a Chanel suit (circa mid '80s) probably ran at that time for around $1700. I looked at her in horror about the cost and she cooly looked at me and said, well it's the price of one of your cartridges
Busted!
Fpr some reason, I am reminded of the scene in North Sea Hijack, wherein Roger Moore's character is talking to someone on a train. Some lady says to him in a slightly judgementat way, "I bet you're one of those people who does the Times crossword in 10 minutes". His somewhat indignant reply: "Madam, I have *never* taken 10 minutes to do the Time crossword" (the implication being that he was offended that she thought he'd take so LONG to finish it).I just envisage Myles daying to his wife "honey, I would never spend $1700 on a cartridge!".
Busted!
I just envisage Myles daying to his wife "honey, I would never spend $1700 on a cartridge!".
Well when have a joint bank account, hard to hide the expenditure.
Just like those people who claim that Audio Research never changes the look of their equipment so the wives won't know their husbands bought a new piece of gear. Right! Like they didn't notice that 5 or 10 K missing from the bank account
Well when have a joint bank account, hard to hide the expenditure.
Just like those people who claim that Audio Research never changes the look of their equipment so the wives won't know their husbands bought a new piece of gear. Right! Like they didn't notice that 5 or 10 K missing from the bank account
I would NEVER spend $5 or 10k on an amp!!!!! Ahhhhhhhahhhhhhahhhahhahh.
Well when have a joint bank account, hard to hide the expenditure.
Just like those people who claim that Audio Research never changes the look of their equipment so the wives won't know their husbands bought a new piece of gear. Right! Like they didn't notice that 5 or 10 K missing from the bank account
You're not wrong there!
I guess my first decent turntable was the original AR. I was in the military and some guy in my barracks had bought it brand new and had never taken it out of the box. He looked in the box and was too intimidated by what he thought was a big project to assemble the table. I think I paid him $25 and I had it up and running within 10-15 minutes. Many tables have come after that one. I bought a SOTA Star Sapphire brand new and I loved the sound of that table. I currently have a VPI TNT with SDS and I am very happy with this table.
Well when have a joint bank account, hard to hide the expenditure.
Just like those people who claim that Audio Research never changes the look of their equipment so the wives won't know their husbands bought a new piece of gear. Right! Like they didn't notice that 5 or 10 K missing from the bank account
They know. It's what they do.
I started with a BSR changer taken from my sisters old Sears portable stereo. Next was a brand new Dual 1229 (which I loved) then a slew of Thorens TD165 and 160's which I tuned up and sold to buy an Oracle Delphi Mk2. I loved the idea of the Oracle but it drove me nuts. A three spring suspension is a bad idea. Then a long gap and lots of CD's. I just bought a new Continuo table with a Cantus mechanical parallel tracking tonearm made by Rauna of Sweden. When I get it up and running I will let you all know what I think. This is my last kick at the cat for commercial products, after this I will probably want to build something myself.
Yes welcome to the forum Moray, I trust that you will find out we have a good crowd here.
I too started out listening to my older sister's turntables. She was given one of those pink cases to play 45's on in the late 1960's - Motown era. Then when we were both in our early teens had a changer from Sears or Montgomery Wards with built-in receiver. Later in our mid-teens upgraded to a neighbors used Philco system, not much better just larger speakers. It was not until I was 18 or 19 that I bought my own first system featuring a Sanyo belt drive TT with S-shape tonearm and fairly expensive for me Empire cartridge and later Audio Technica cartridge. It was ten years later I upgraded to a Dual CS-503-1 which 20 years later I still have, but modified like crazy.
I too started out listening to my older sister's turntables. She was given one of those pink cases to play 45's on in the late 1960's - Motown era. Then when we were both in our early teens had a changer from Sears or Montgomery Wards with built-in receiver. Later in our mid-teens upgraded to a neighbors used Philco system, not much better just larger speakers. It was not until I was 18 or 19 that I bought my own first system featuring a Sanyo belt drive TT with S-shape tonearm and fairly expensive for me Empire cartridge and later Audio Technica cartridge. It was ten years later I upgraded to a Dual CS-503-1 which 20 years later I still have, but modified like crazy.
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My first turntable were Technics 1200, my first high end table was Basis 2000 in 1999 (newer to the hobby than others).
The Continuo and Cantus arm are made by Bo Hanson of Opus 3 Recordings in Sweden the company name is Rauna of Sweden. Thanks for the welcome.
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