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!

Energy Encore 2 Speakers

My family were the original owners of these speakers. We actually had the entire Energy Encore 5.1 surround set, minus the integrated stands. Slowly, the rear speakers were sold. I kept the subwoofer to use with my sound bar, and the center channel broke. All that remained were these little guys sitting on the same shelving unit for the past 15ish years. I used them for a bit for my computer setup but, opted to use my Mirage Omni 350 instead. While these are considered "big box store" speakers, they are still great little speakers. These were made in Canada. Used their hyperdome aluminum tweeter that made Energy famous from the Pro22 days (thank you Burhoe!). A super nice black piano finish and sealed box, with a 4" long throw woofer. Some Specifications that I took from the web: System Type: Magnetically shielded acoustic suspension satellite Tweeter: 1" (28mm) Aluminum dome with cloth suspension Woofers: 4" (112mm) Multi-laminated aluminum polycarbonate c

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 the design. And, as usual,

Dual CS-616Q Turntable

Finally doing a write up for a couple of turntables. So, let's start with the Dual CS-616Q. Made around the mid 80s when wood-grain design were no longer in fashion and the new sleek grey and black were in. This Dual is in really nice shape, and I mean real nice shape. While it's not from the 70s, it doesn't mean it's not quality. In comparison to other companies of the time that still made entry level turntables, this Dual is really well made. It has decent heft and it is German made so a lot of precision was still put into it. It is a direct drive, a true semi-automatic and quartz lock turntable. Why do I mean true semi-automatic? Well, before some of their earlier turntables had an auto-lift off at the end but the tonearm never returned to the rest post. So, having it returning is a nice feature to have! It also features Dual's ULM (ultra low mass) tonearm and their EDS motor. These tonearms are especially nice for higher compliant cartridges as

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