Linn Sondek (but actually an Ariston RD11)

[konafan]

Okay i thought I'd give it a try on here, eBay is doing my head in, since it sold to a Chinese collector for £450 who didn't read the small print, then relisted sold to a messer at £320!
So for a simple life I would sell this for £300 colected from Sheffield.
Its a 1973 Ariston RD11 with Linn armboard and Linn Basic tonarm and Asak cartridge fitted.
The lid has hinge damage so is removed but included.
The Ariston RD11 and early Sondek were in some cases identical asides from a bearing, no doubt some of you reading this know more about these iconic turntables than me, I found out since the first listing through many helpful (and a few pedantic) emails that people can debate over the purity of this particular deck until the cows come home!
Pm for contact details.

 

[TGR]

I must show this to my 7 year old daughter, she has no idea of the joy of vinyl and now i still have the vinyl and no turntable!

Richard

 

[KermitGKona88]

Re:

Where does my iPod plug in :?: :facepalm:

 

[TGR]

Well, I told her about cassette tapes last week - and i still have a player in my car and she was quite amazed, pehaps vinyl will be too much for her to take in!

Richard

p.s. i have an iPod ..... getting my coat and ear plugs (or ear phones? the things that the iPod has!)

 

[KermitGKona88]

Re:

Video tapes and black and white TV will have to wait quite a while then

 

[TGR]

Well ....

without wanting to draw any further attention to my attic, I have a B+W TV with a tuning knob (ie no buttons) and a few boxes of videos too. I will leave them until she is a bit older i think!

Richard

 

[apache]

I believe the story is that the chap who owned Ariston used Ivor Tiefenbrun's dad's engineering company to build parts for his RD-11. Ivor went on to form Linn Products, starting with the LP-12 (one digit up, interesting) which underneath was as far as I know identical to the RD-11. There is some conjecture as to how Ivor ended up with Ariston's designs, but it went fairly acrimonious, and the sensible affordable RD-11 ended up being the ludicrously expensive LP-12 promoted by Linn's evangelical extremist marketing department - ie, if you didn't think it was best, you were a worthless idiot. I'm a worthless idiot, I bought a Michell Gyrodeck as I thought the engineering to be far and away better than the Linn, and preferred Michell's ethos. Still regret selling that beautiful bit of kit. Owned a Syncro for a while too, which jumped up and down all over the Rega 3, that pricepoint's darling of the time.

 

[REKIBorter]

Does it come with a rumble filter?

 

[konafan]

NOW SOLD