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In Reply to: RE: AR Turntable posted by sony6060 on January 06, 2017 at 07:16:43
Thorens, Empire, Linn, Ariston, Mitchell among others.
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What vintage TT would you recommend for $500-$800? My kid needs a starter TT.
...Pioneer PL-12D.
An overpriced, overhauled, gorgeous one might set you back as much as $200.
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They are reliable, sound very good, are plentiful and a perfect starter table. Its the one that got me started, in '76.
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
Starter? I'd go to someplace like Crutchfield and get one of the many Music Hall TTs available with mounted cartridge and ready to go. The sprung turntables like Thorens or Linn are likely to be too finicky.
Any of the brands mentioned would fit your criteria. Along with some nice DD tables from Technics, Sony, Denon, etc. For that budget, you should be able to get a good arm as well.
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Add Lenco to that list.
Comparing any of these tables to an AR is a joke. An AR is pretty much worth it's original price. You can't polish a turd.
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It is worth noting that the AR-XA's price of %78 in the early 1960s works out to about $630 today.
They polished that "turd" in the places that matter. The machining in places critical to performance was to very close tolerances. Its performance met or beat NAB standards of the time.
I still have one in daily use and the music sounds fine.
DYI, that can be a pretty musically satisfying turd. ;^)
"The piano ain't got no wrong notes." Thelonious Monk
I agree totally, but if I were going to go down the suspended belt drive road I would start with with a Thorens TD-150 which I feel is a better table,(and value) and much easier to adapt a better arm to. I actually have two TD-150s and love them. I had an AR-XA for a while and was mostly unimpressed in comparison to the Thorens.
To each his own....
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Freak out...Far out...In out....
Original price was $78. It's hard to find a working one for around a hundred, and people have done plenty of polishing--new bases, Magnepan Unitrac and Linn Basik arms, and the like.
But it's still a belt-drive turntable with an electric clock motor.
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