A customer of mine recently acquired a new-old-stock (NOS) Sansui SR-929 direct-drive turntable, in original box! Originally posted December 2015, updated July 2025! The Sansui SR-929 was the best turntable Sansui ever made, in my opinion. Tim asked me to take this lovely Sansui SR-929 out of the box for the first time and recommission […]
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As a surprise birthday gift, I was asked to restore this lovely old French ERA Mk6 belt-drive turntable. I was happy to assist and it allowed me to work on a deck I’d not worked on before. The ERA Mk6 is a belt-drive deck from the early seventies. It is slightly unusual in the actual
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A customer recently asked me to service and align his latest acquisition – a stunning Kenwood KT-3300D FM analogue stereo tuner. Due to other repair commitments, it took me longer than I would have liked to get to this gorgeous KT-3300D. The wait was worth it though. As you’ll see, aligning a tuner like this
Arcam makes some nice equipment, so when a customer asked me to service his Arcam Alpha 9 integrated / power amplifier setup, I was happy to assist. The Arcam Alpha 9 amplifier was a mainstay for Arcam for many years. The amplifier is fairly straightforward in design and neat in internal layout. There is nothing
I recently overhauled this lovely old Pioneer PL-530 direct-drive turntable. Let’s take a closer look. This model is not especially common, but it has a great vintage look and some great features that I think make it one to keep an eye out for. Pioneer made some great belt-drive and direct-drive decks and many of
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