We've had lots of Harman Kardon products and each one of them are excellent pieces. However, this little guy has a few tricks up its sleeves. There's quite a bit of features packed into this tiny compact turntable. For one, it offers pitch control that many Japanese belt drive turntables don't have and second, there is a tiny set screw at the back of the base of the tone arm that offers a bit of height adjustment for the tone arm. That means, it has VTA but, it is fairly limited. But, nonetheless functional.
It has nice clean look with an angled dustcover and the tone arm looks as if it is a stipped down version of the T65, Japanese made of course. Not to mention, they both use the same headshell. It is a well made table with a low mass tone arm, which is nice for the Shure Me95ED cartridge mounted on it.
Internally, it is well designed and well layed out. Unlike the upper end HK turntables, this is not suspended. But, originally, sat on sprung feet. However, they have deteriorated over the years and we've replaced them. Think, Pioneer PL-518 feet, they don't age well.
Aesthetically, it is in nice shape. Sonically, it sounds really good. Shure cartridges tend to like the low mass tone arms and the Me95, which is a M95 variant, is a great cartridge. The best feature of all, and I am sure many would disagree with me, is the fact the arm returns at the end.
This is a very nice 2-speed, belt drive, semi-automatic turntable. It makes a great starter table, especially if one isn't looking for something large. The base is slightly larger than 14" x 15".
It also has a nifty strobe disc that sits on the mat. As always, all our turntables have been completely gone through.
For more information:
http://www.vinylengine.com/library/harman-kardon/t25.shtml
It has nice clean look with an angled dustcover and the tone arm looks as if it is a stipped down version of the T65, Japanese made of course. Not to mention, they both use the same headshell. It is a well made table with a low mass tone arm, which is nice for the Shure Me95ED cartridge mounted on it.
Internally, it is well designed and well layed out. Unlike the upper end HK turntables, this is not suspended. But, originally, sat on sprung feet. However, they have deteriorated over the years and we've replaced them. Think, Pioneer PL-518 feet, they don't age well.
Aesthetically, it is in nice shape. Sonically, it sounds really good. Shure cartridges tend to like the low mass tone arms and the Me95, which is a M95 variant, is a great cartridge. The best feature of all, and I am sure many would disagree with me, is the fact the arm returns at the end.
This is a very nice 2-speed, belt drive, semi-automatic turntable. It makes a great starter table, especially if one isn't looking for something large. The base is slightly larger than 14" x 15".
It also has a nifty strobe disc that sits on the mat. As always, all our turntables have been completely gone through.
For more information:
http://www.vinylengine.com/library/harman-kardon/t25.shtml