Tantalising Turntables

[jaspert]

Jasper, is your lenco going to look like this?

Imagine a smaller plinth with similar thickness without the OMA logo, same PTP3 top plate but may be painted black, two stacked platters with a custom heavy duty bearing with a long spindle and a Transfi Audio T3 Pro air bearing arm. Something like that.

[turntable]

a new direct drive table

[theophile]

a new direct drive table

$20,000US.

Read about it here:

http://www.audioasylum.com/cgi/t.mpl?f=vinyl&m=892615

[turntable]

$20,000US.

Read about it here:

http://www.audioasylum.com/cgi/t.mpl?f=vinyl&m=892615

super sluth Theo :-)

too rich for me. watch out for all the useless SP10's Mk3's being dumped

[theophile]

Am I sleuth,sloth or slut?

Or some GODforesaken gruesome characature of all three?

(back to the Turntables.....)

[jaspert]

More eye candy. OMA SP10. Nice....

[2sheds]

Oh, I remember that one, a classic.

And with this, it must then bring us to end of this thread 2sheds? It's been fun, but could there more?

(From thread #139 in August 2008)

Cheers.

A few more, Nostro...

cheers
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[2sheds]

Could this be the best turntable ever built?

Gentlemen, I present to you, in the blue corner, from Germany, weighing in at 36.3 kilograms. born in 1951 - the EMT 927 - one of the most sought after turntables in the world.



The EMT 927 was made for broadcast studios, and was sold as the R-80. This is one very big turntable. The record you see in the picture is a 12 inch LP. Back in the 50's and 60's, radio stations used compilation LP's which were 16 inches in diameter. These were usually provided by the recording companies. The arm you see is a 12 inch EMT 997 (banana) arm.

The EMT was engineered to a very high standard. I suspect that any rejects were used to make Panther tanks. The bearing shaft, for example, is 16.6 cm long and has a diameter of 2 cm! The motor itself is massive. It looks like an industrial motor, 13.5 cm in diameter and 20 cm long! It is a 3 phase synchronous type with phase shifter.







How good are these turntables? Almost 60 years later, pristine models with no modifications, can still show a clean pair of heels to many of today's finest. In fact, EMT turntables are legendary for sounding better with few, if any, modifications. The 927 also had a little brother, the EMT 930, which was smaller and less heavily engineered than the 927, but is reputedly almost as good as it's big brother.

If money were no object, the one turntable in the world I would buy, is a pristine EMT 927S (with a mount for an extra tonearm).

Andythiing, keep an eye out next time you are at the dump...

cheers
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[theophile]

Yes.The 927.

Sure makes the Garrards look like a distant destitute cousin.

[2sheds]

Yes.The 927.

Sure makes the Garrards look like a distant destitute cousin.

And strangely modern, for a 60 year old record player. Yep, you can keep your Continuums and Goldmund References, give me a good old EMT 927 any old day

cheers
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[cheekyboy]

A few more, Nostro...

cheers
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There has been a lot more since then Mr Sheds but I wouldn't expect Nostro to pick your post up though................his last activity was early November 2008 and he hasn't been seen since. I had a little bit to do with him too back then as we had a common interest in sport and work but he seems to have vanished completely as I get no response to email and the mobile I had now doesn't answer. I often wonder where he got to as he had a big interest in turntables and from memory a huge collection of vinyl too.

Cheers,

Keith

[2sheds]

There has been a lot more since then Mr Sheds but I wouldn't expect Nostro to pick your post up though................his last activity was early November 2008 and he hasn't been seen since. I had a little bit to do with him too back then as we had a common interest in sport and work but he seems to have vanished completely as I get no response to email and the mobile I had now doesn't answer. I often wonder where he got to as he had a big interest in turntables and from memory a huge collection of vinyl too.

Cheers,

Keith

Keith,

Yes, the thread has survived, some might say thrived. It's a shame to lose Nostro. I hadn't realised it was that long since he'd logged onto SNA. I hope he is well and comes back to us one Salma day,

cheers
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[2sheds]

Dr. Feickert Analogue Twin turntable (Price ?)

cheers
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[2sheds]

Dr. Feickert Woodpecker (Price ?)

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Dr. Feickert Triple (Price ?)

For those followers of 'Tantalising Turntables' who are thinking that this turntable looks familiar, Dr Feickert used to be the distributor for Scheu Analog

cheers
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[andyr]

Imagine a smaller plinth with similar thickness without the OMA logo, same PTP3 top plate but may be painted black, two stacked platters with a custom heavy duty bearing with a long spindle and a Transfi Audio T3 Pro air bearing arm. Something like that.

Sensational, Jasper ... you're getting a Transfiguration T3 arm? I'd love to have a listen when it's up and running.

Regards,

Andy

[jaspert]

Sensational, Jasper ... you're getting a Transfiguration T3 arm? I'd love to have a listen when it's up and running.

Regards,

Andy

hi Andy,
The Lenco project is running behind atm waiting for the plinth and I just got the arm so I gave it a run on another table. Had a frustrating few days with hum issue with a few MM/MI cartridges in my system and some setup issue from a linear tracker newbie. But the maker is great and very responsive with all my queries.
It's up and running now and it's rather good, make that very good.
A few more things to try. I will send you a pm.

[cheekyboy]

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Dr. Feickert Triple (Price ?)

For those followers of 'Tantalising Turntables' who are thinking that this turntable looks familiar, Dr Feickert used to be the distributor for Scheu Analog

cheers
2sheds

The J Arm must be wireless?..........and that belt is very thin indeed!

[andyr]

hi Andy,
The Lenco project is running behind atm waiting for the plinth and I just got the arm so I gave it a run on another table. Had a frustrating few days with hum issue with a few MM/MI cartridges in my system and some setup issue from a linear tracker newbie. But the maker is great and very responsive with all my queries.
It's up and running now and it's rather good, make that very good.
A few more tweaks to try later. I will send you a pm.

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Hehe - looking at that pic of your TT, methinks the T3 would sound much better if you had a real TT!! I'm sure the Lenco will be just sweet.

(But unfortunately, I don't think it would be a very good match with an LP12. )

Regards,

Andy

[jaspert]

Hehe - looking at that pic of your TT, methinks the T3 would sound much better if you had a real TT!! I'm sure the Lenco will be just sweet.

(But unfortunately, I don't think it would be a very good match with an LP12. )

Regards,
Andy

Ouch!! I hope the Lenco experiment will be successful.

[WarwickF]

2 Sheds, slight correction to your post. Dr. Christian Feickert originally worked at Scheu Analog when Thomas Scheu was alive. Chris was a design engineer there and when Thomas died at a young age his wife Ulla took over running the business. Chris left the company and started his own business building turntables. Puremusicgroup has the agency for Dr. Feickert Analogue products.

For those that are interested the prices are:

Woodpecker $4950
Blackbird $6950
Twin $8950
Triple $12,950

All of the turntables can accommodate up to 12" tonearms and all except Woodpecker can fit multiple tonearms.
The Blackbird has two motors for additional torque. I have the Blackbird here on demo now.

Warwick

[theophile]

2 Sheds, slight correction to your post. Dr. Christian Feickert originally worked at Scheu Analog when Thomas Scheu was alive. Chris was a design engineer there and when Thomas died at a young age his wife Ulla took over running the business. Chris left the company and started his own business building turntables. Puremusicgroup has the agency for Dr. Feickert Analogue products.

For those that are interested the prices are:

Woodpecker $4950
Blackbird $6950
Twin $8950
Triple $12,950

All of the turntables can accommodate up to 12" tonearms and all except Woodpecker can fit multiple tonearms.
The Blackbird has two motors for additional torque. I have the Blackbird here on demo now.

Warwick

Wow.

I didn't know we had ad breaks here.

[2sheds]

2 Sheds, slight correction to your post. Dr. Christian Feickert originally worked at Scheu Analog when Thomas Scheu was alive. Chris was a design engineer there and when Thomas died at a young age his wife Ulla took over running the business. Chris left the company and started his own business building turntables. Puremusicgroup has the agency for Dr. Feickert Analogue products.

For those that are interested the prices are:

Woodpecker $4950
Blackbird $6950
Twin $8950
Triple $12,950

All of the turntables can accommodate up to 12" tonearms and all except Woodpecker can fit multiple tonearms.
The Blackbird has two motors for additional torque. I have the Blackbird here on demo now.

Warwick

Warwick,

Thanks for the clarification No sooner had I made this post than I went looking at your website, as I very often do. And what did I see? There, on the home page was a Dr Feickert Woodpecker ( the turntable, I mean). PMG really does have an embaressment of riches Great looking turntables. They look very promising.

Cheers
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[jaspert]

Warwick,

Thanks for the clarification No sooner had I made this post than I went looking at your website, as I very often do. And what did I see? There, on the home page was a Dr Feickert Woodpecker ( the turntable, I mean). PMG really does have an embaressment of riches Great looking turntables. They look very promising.

Cheers
2sheds

You mean "Blackbird"..
It looks great BTW.. Very well thought out.

[2sheds]

You mean "Blackbird"..
It looks great BTW.. Very well thought out.

Doh!

Cheers
2sheds