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Just to make sure: Did you turn up the input on the EQ and make sure, that its tape monitoring function was inactive? Greetings from Munich! Manfred / lini

Hard to tell, if one doesn't know, what's wrong with it - from your pics it would foremost appear, that the rod for the antiskating weight is bent - and the antiskating weight plus line as well as the platter are missing, of course. It's not a lousy table, though. Greetings from Munich...

Just to make sure: You're aware, that you'll still need some sort of receiver or integrated amp or pre-/power-amp combo in between the Technics turntable and the loudspeakers, are you? Greetings from Munich! Manfred / lini

The MN1201 is a latch, but it's installed at the correct spot (IC6), according to the PCB layout in the service manual. Whereas the MN1203 (IC3) is a 256 Bit RAM (64 x 4 Bit) - on your pic it should be the one near the bottom, left below the MN1201 (IC6), but not properly visible due to being in...

Looks like some sort of (P)1, 1.2 or 2 to me. Did you have a look at the underside? There might be a sticker with the model designation and serial number. Greetings from Munich! Manfred / lini

That's because the corresponding instructions for setting it are to be found in the user manuals - whereas for checking the calibration one would ideally have Dual's own Skate-o-meter and a suitable test record with unmodulated grooves at hand. Greetings from Munich! Manfred / lini

An offset of the cantilever (or respectively of its projection in the horizontal plane) in parallel to the length axis of the cartridge/needle would typically rather already be present right from the start - whereas excessive or insufficient antiskating would rather cause the cantilever to point...

Might make sense to remove the headshell, so you can inspect the cartridge/needle from the bottom. Because sometimes it happens, that the cantilever already has a slight offset to the side (relative to the length axis of the cartridge/needle) rather than that it would be pointing sideways...

Nice W48! A friend of mine collected old telephones during the late 80s/early 90s for a while - and he had quite a few of these (mostly black ones, though). Greetings from Munich! Manfred / lini edit: typo extermination *sigh*

Then it would seem smarter to not let that guy repair your 1241, as you might overpay for his inexperience. And due to that inexperience he might even do more harm than good. Greetings from Munich! Manfred / lini

No, contradiction from my side, as in my view you're right. I.e., I also think, that older iPods weren't yet designed to act as USB hosts - so to make such an old iPod work with a regular USB DAC, which is a USB peripheral device (specifically a USB audio class device), it would take some sort...

600 bucks to fix a 1241??? I can hardly imagine that. Did the shop-owner tell you, what he found to be wrong with that exemplar? Greetings from Munich! Manfred / lini

Nope, that was supposed to mean, that the plastic holders of needles for (most of) the halfinch-mount models of the wider AT120 are somewhat fatter and additionally sport a visor guard compared to the slimmer visor-less plastic holders of the needles for the AT1x2P family (including all of its...

Not quite sure, whether it's new - but good for a smile it should be: https://debeste.de/upload/08bb13ec360e3aaf74e6a3a30b01ea474371.jpg Greetings from Munich! Manfred / lini

Looks like a fairly decent Hitachi - and the cartridge simply is a "rename" of the pretty good AT122LP. The screw and nut to properly fix the cartridge in the T4P headshell would appear to be missing, though. Well, and the AT405LP/122LP belong to the "wider AT120 family" (my nomenclature), to...