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Post by MartinT on Jan 12, 2018 7:45:02 GMT
I have a non-mint STD-305M (no arm) as you know, Andr'e. It could be refurbished or broken for spares, but it's not doing anything at mine. I need it to go to a good home.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2018 13:35:53 GMT
I forgot you had one, is it black or silver finish Martin?
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Post by dsjr on Jan 12, 2018 13:59:01 GMT
btw: If anyone sees a mint STD '305D' id be interested.. Dave: Shame Dual did not do those decks armless. Why? Do you honestly think their tonearms are sub-standard?
I appreciate they're not audiophile fodder, but my 701 has played host from a hell of a lot from an AT91/Rega Carbon to a Koetsu Black via a host of Shures and ADC's including a fussy Sonus Blue, the Koetsu sounding amazing in this deck until it lost a channel due to broken coil wire (I intend to get it fixed one day). Some solid body MC types don't feed resonances into the tonearm as much as others do. My workroom favourite 1019 is being used with an Ortofon 520 and it sounds lovely apart from sensitivity to surface noise lacking in others I tried.
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Post by MartinT on Jan 12, 2018 14:01:13 GMT
I forgot you had one, is it black or silver finish Martin? Silver. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2018 19:38:36 GMT
btw: If anyone sees a mint STD '305D' id be interested.. Dave: Shame Dual did not do those decks armless. Why? Do you honestly think their tonearms are sub-standard?
No Dave they are just not my cuppa Tea. I was trying to say it would have been nice for them to have sold a motor unit version of those old decks. |
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Post by dsjr on Jan 12, 2018 20:26:02 GMT
I'd like to try one of the Collaro's from the late 50's or so. Solid main bearing, top quality motors (fan cooled I seem to remember), but with a similarly solid-compound idler rubber to the Garrards of the period, so maybe noise. Collaro did a solidly moulded counterbalanced arm which I suspect could accept the more durable mm cartridges too, but the popular ones over here seem to be the slimmer oval-head types that can only accept a slimline mono ceramic or crystal type (Ronette made I believe) with single hole fixing.. I'm bloody drifting again.. On HFS, RD suggested a Pioneer PL12-AC, the immediate predecessor of the hugely selling 12-D. The AC model really was a more substantially built unit although I have no idea of its sonic abilities - the 12-D isn't very good subjectively and so far I have little idea as to why - the 112D was even worse I recall  |
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