Finally, we have this beaut of a turntable up and running! New belt, new headshell leads, serviced and comes with original headshell. Heavy duty unit, heavy platter and plinth, probably one of the heaviest I have seen for quite some time! Beautiful walnut veneer plinth. Only real flaw was the original dustcover that came with the unit was damaged. I've super-glued it and seems to be holding up. Doesn't look pretty from the back, but highly functional! Pictures will be added later!
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 ...