Pioneer PL-A35 Turntable

This is a very retro looking turntable by Pioneer. It was made during the early to mid 70s and really well made too. It has a beautiful real wood veneer plinth, a smoked dust cover with a handle at the front (classy!) and suspended platform. It has a nice sized motor, good platter weight and a pretty neat looking tone arm. It's not your typical S-shaped arm but rather a J-shaped tone arm.

It's a 2-speed, belt-drive and fully automatic turntable with repeat. It also features the lead in option for 7, 10 and 12 inch records. It's completely serviced and comes with a brand new belt and a new Shure M75 Type 2 stylus from Jico Japan. The cartridge is a Realistic R47EDT, which was a re-badged version. Plays great, tracks great and looks great. It's a very sharp looking turntable.

Because it's a Shure there are plenty of replacement stylus out there, beware of low quality ones, in case the stylus breaks. As well, from Jico they have their SAS stylus which brings the cartridge to a whole new level. I have 3 Shures with SAS styli and they sound great!

One minor quibble, the tone arm rest has no clamp or clasp of any kind. I looked at several pictures online and all of them are the same, none have the clamp. I checked and read through the manuals and nothing is mentioned about it either. Really weird, but not a deal breaker by any means. We got something to help secure it!

This table does prefer a nice and stable platform due to suspended platform. Actually, all turntables prefer a stable platform.

Overall, it's in great shape, however, there is a stress mark near one of the hinges.

Nonetheless, this table is ready to go to a new and loving home!

Micro Seiki MR-622 Turntable

This is one of my greatest prize possessions, well for turntables. The Micro Seiki MR-622 is a fabulous turntable, and definitely has been one of my favourite tables that I had the pleasure of owning. Everything about this turntable screams quality. Even the 45rpm adapter seemed to be milled aluminum. It has adjustable feet, a side pocket for accessories , a nice heavy die cast platter and even the top part of the plinth is cast. All wrapped in a beautiful smoked dustcover and real wood sides. The Micro Seiki MR-622 is a fully manual, 2-speed, direct drive turntable. This means, it's low maintenance and high reliability as there is less moving parts within the turntable. It's just a huge motor, speed controls and Micro Seiki MA-202 tone arm, placed in a overly built plinth just like what one would expect from Micro Seiki. The MA-202 tone arm is a S-shaped tone arm with excellent tracking ability. It has an adjustable counterweight and the...

Hitachi HT-45 Turntable

I know this turntable isn't of the norm that most people want as it doesn't give that vintage vibe. However, the Hitachi HT-45 is still a very capable turntable of the early 80s. Despite having a straight tone arm, it does mean it's a low mass tone arm and generally favours high compliant cartridges like Shures and Audio Technica. Since it was made during the early 80s, it is relatively slim line. However, it still has all the goodies of a capable turntable. It is a 2-speed, direct drive turntable with automatic return and pitch control. The overall build quality is pretty much standard of the 80s. And it's quite reliable. There isn't a lot of information out there, however, there's been a few rendition of this turntable, like the earlier or later HT-40S and the Baycrest models. The tone arm shaft is aluminium, and it's relatively easy to service so it's of decent quality. As well, the hinges are quite nice. It also features Hitachi's unitorque...

Yamaha YP-66 Turntable

The rosewood vinyl wrapped twin sibling of the Yamaha YP-221, they are the exactly the same other than the colour of the plinth and instead of silver plastic bits on the YP-221 the YP-66 has black bits. This is your typical belt drive turntable of the mid to late 70s. It's a 2-speed with automatic return (semi-automatic). It's a nice entry level turntable with all the decent built quality that you find on majority of the Japanese made tables of that era. It has a good sized motor and a decent weight. Yamaha tables are like Sony tables, they always have decent quality components and they always look nice to the eyes. The slight smoked dustcover and the rosewood plinth makes it quite unique to look at. Sadly, the antiskate weight on our isn't original. It was missing when we got it. After a bit of research we found the appropriate weight and found an appropriate weight to retrofit into our table. We found a nice brass weight to fit with ...

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