Sony PS-2250 Turntable with SME 3009 S2 Tonearm

Primarily for posterity as this lovely turntable found it's new home in California, what a packing job that was! This was my main table and my baby ever since I got it on trade. I had the tone arm re-wired with cardas and primarily used a Shure M91ED with an original needle. However, since I now use my Technics SL-1600nkii (I like the fully automatic functions) this has been sitting in the spare room for quite some time, hence why it had to go.

Nonetheless, this was and still is an excellent.

Let's talk about the Sony PS-2250. Such a good motor. These early Sony turntables were one of the best. Extremely well made and bulletproof. Cast aluminum (I think) housing, really nice piano key switches for the 33/45. The platter was almost a 2-piece, similar to a Thoren. The overall plinth is good, real wood veneer.

The arm, now that was special. A low mass tone arm, which is why I paired with the Shure. Fixed headshell, good or bad, depending on how often you enjoy swapping cartridges. Knife bearing, which was good. These arms are really nice. It needed a bit of work, had to re-fill the silicone dampening fluid, and find an original anti-skate weight, if I recall correctly, which I did.

Truly, a fail-safe turntable. No overly complicated mechanics, motor is easy to repair without any overly complicated electronics. Hrmm, why did I sell it? I can't remember. Probably, on the lines of having too many turntables and I no longer really listen to records as much as I used too. Oh well, I still have pictures.

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,

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

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 tone arm pipe is filled w

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