Turntables Gallery

[Shadowfax]

Versa Dynamics

OK, so these are not the sexiest out there but noteworthy to me as I made and assembled most of the machined parts in John Bicht's original prototypes and first MFG runs of the early Vacuum Platter turntables. Aside from the wood and electrical boxes, I made almost every other part you can see in these two pictures.

 

[elcoholic]

Here's 5 of my 6.

Thorens TD-125 ll / Grace 707

Techniques SL-1950 on DIY 30# sand-filled torsion box

Sony PS-X30

Dual CS-5000

Dual 1019 getting ready to go to fixmydual, I'll get better pic when it's back in the console

 

[elcoholic]

Can RCM's be loved too?

 

[Petro85]

What kind of table is that??thorens?? It freakin gorgeous!!!!

Oh I just blew up the pic and saw the big blue sign. Lol
I love it !!!

 

[jwhite613]

What kind of table is that??thorens?? It freakin gorgeous!!!!

Steve... It's a Thorens.

 

[GaryProtein]

Since we have so much :heart: in turntable.

Let's post some of your favorite one.

I will start with

Nakamichi TX 1000 - My friend has one I really loved it and it was big in size and sounds

The best part of this turntable is that it addresses a problem no other manufacturer has addressed before or since. That is its ability to correct for records with off center hole punches.

 

[dlb2]

I like your Thorens, John. Sweet!:audiophile:

 

[shelly_d]

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That arm looks like its a thorens to my tired old eyes. What is the rest of it, besides modern beautiful.

Shelly_D

 

[elcoholic]

I like your Thorens, John. Sweet!:audiophile:

Thanks. It's spinning Mudcrutch to perfection right now.

 

[KraemerDesigns]

The first one i made



And second

 

[NorthStar]

The first one i made



And second

Matt, you are truly the 'audio artist' here.

 

[XV-1]

new platter for my TW Raven AC-3. Looking more like a Micro Seiki copy than before. :hi: Damm heavy at 20kg's

 

[f1 fan]

X...that is beautiful, congrats to you

Dave

 

[nikonf]

These are absolutely beautiful!

 

[GaryProtein]

Here are a couple fo lesser known vintage tangential arm turntables.

The Marantz SLT-12 from the late 1960's and Revox 790 from the late 1970's

I would have submitted photos of the B&O tangential arm table, but it stinks and I hate the sound of the Bang and Out-Of-Tune products. With that turntable, you had to use their cartridge.

 

[GaryProtein]

OK, here is the B&O 8000 tangential arm table. . .

 

[elcoholic]

Ouch Gary, play nice . For the record B&O made some great tables, the 4000 or 4002 was the best made of the linear trackers IIRC. I had a conventional Beogram 1900 and the proprietary cartridges, especially the MMC-1 (line contact/sapphire cantilever) are excellent esp. when paired with the TOTL Beovox M70 speakers. There's a reason Soundsmith retips them.

 

[GaryProtein]

Yes, it was the 4000 series I was thinking of, but I still didn't like the sound of it and it wasn't very good at racking disks that weren't perfectly flat. An ex of mine owned a 4004 I think.

 

[NorthStar]

What's the difference between Tangential tonearm and Linear tonearm?

 

[elcoholic]

Spelling mostly.