Used as belt-drive transport only.

Modified by Birdland Audio

Semi-pro recorder used to bring in analog sources to CD, via its Super-Bit-Mapping A/D converter (24-bit input). Used as playback transport also.

Belt-drive, heavy platter. With Micro MA505-II tonearm. Photo taken from internet. Veneer and lacquer on it are not so good... Unknown tonearm in this picture.

S-shaped, of stainless steel plus aluminum. Medium moving-mass, but can handle high-compliance carts because it is very, very low in friction. It is also very low in mechanical arm resonances that a cartridge usually excites-- because of that steel and that there is absolutely no play to its bearings, torsional or otherwise. We use its original magnesium headshell or an ADCOM carbon-fiber minimalist shell, depending on cartridge. Aligned with Arc-protractor template (Baerwald as I remember). With very careful work to fit the Arc template exactly, the resulting sound was like master tape, because we immediately no longer heard the drag of a stylus in the groove. At all. Amazing.

Direct drive in a damped cast-aluminum base. This was their second model to appear after their SL-10 super-duper direct drive. Shown here with its stock tonearm. I fit ours with a Grace 707 arm to run ADC XLMs, Sonus Blue Golds, and lately my trusty Empire ZE/X 1000- all very-high-compliance cartridges.

Very low-mass arm, mounted currently on Technics SL-110. Picture swiped from e-bay. As with Micro arm, very low friction bearings, yet having no play to them.

Induced magnet (moving iron) high compliance top model. Current version is called MP-500. Highly recommended for well-balanced systems. Shibata-type fine line stylus on boron-aluminum 2-step cantilever.

Modified by Garrot Bros, with vdH stylus on boron cantilever. Runs into Jeff Rowland Strain Gauge preamp. No RIAA EQ required.

Induced-magnet (moving iron) design. Very high compliance. Empire's top model, hand calibrated, from early 1970's, two years before ADC's XLM appeared.

High-compliance, very low moving mass, medium-output dual moving-coils. Nice, with the usual Signet tone balance.

Tube preamp with phono section. Four SN7 tubes, no circuit boards, almost zero wiring.

Three-piece unit: Separate four-transformer power supply, line-stage section, strain-gauge cartridge phono section.

Not quite this model- more like a custom NL-15i if there ever was one. Something Edge made just for us. 350Watts/channel.

I think that is the correct model number. 1.5 meters long.

12-foot pair

Wide, treated-silver ribbons.

Digital cable

to be revealed this Spring!