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From: bhaskar@fluke.UUCP (K.S. Bhaskar)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: WANTED: turntable/cartridge advice
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Date: Fri, 14-Oct-83 20:50:49 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 14 20:50:49 1983
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Sorry to post this to the net, instead of replying by mail, but it didn't get
through.

I recommend a Pioneer PLL-800S, linear-tracking turntable with a quartz-locked
direct drive motor.  It comes with its own PC-6MC high-output moving coil
cartridge.  I bought mine about 3-4 months ago from Labelle in Biddecombe,
Maine by mail order (they advertise in the pages of Audio -- unfortunately, I
don't have the phone number with me here at work).  Including packing and
postage, it cost me around $270-275, and I am happy with it.  You can also get
excellent sound at half the price -- previously, I owned a bottom-of-the-line
Technics direct-drive with Audio-Technica ST-71 cartridge for around $150 from
J.C. Penny's, and there was no significant difference.  I have also compared a
high-end system consisting of a Dennon turntable, Infinity tone-arm (I think)
and Fidelity Research cartridge, and, while the sound appeared to be better,
it was not significantly so, though the price of that system was around $900
all told.  Another turntable to look into is the Technics SL-10 (for around
$100 more than the Pioneer).  By the way, these are all older designs, but
that's what makes them attractively priced (for example, the Pioneer was
originally sold as the Phase Linear 8000, and was listed at $800 or so a
couple of years ago).

-- K.S. Bhaskar