monkboughtlunch
Super Member
We sold both Miracord and Dual for close to 30 years. We had two techs that worked on TT;s exclusively and they both said Miracords were easier to service and worked for longer periods of time with out issues. The Duals may have had a touch lower rumble and wow and Flutter specs and better performance. But the Miracords just didn't have as many service issues. We sold Miracords 2 to 1 over Duals and yet there were easily twice as many duals in the shop. We could go months with out seeing a Miracord in the shop, while duals were always there. Parts delivery were slower with Dual it seemed, also. Both had issues with their automatic center spindles. But the Miracord spindle seemed to allow a red to float down to the platter where the Dual table experience seemed strained and uncomfortable. I never used the auto spindle with my Miracord. The Aluminum foil under the TD 125 was there to reduce the hum from the Ortofon MC cartridge. .View attachment 1404661
I noticed a lot of vintage preamps had two magnetic turntable inputs. As in your photograph, was it common for folks to have both a transcription table and a separate changer back in the day? In other words, did many folks have and use two tables instead of just one? If so, why?