Aerobat
Class A all the way
The wife and I were at a local Farmers / Flea market Saturday and I of course was scanning the junk tables for vintage electronics. It was mostly 90s components that were evidently pulled from dumpsters, but sitting out in the sun by itself on its original box was a lonely, dirty, scuffed plastic TT. Upon lifting the lid and pulling the headshell I find this Signet:
$25 later the table was tucked away in the car, and back at home, the cart looks like this:
I mounted it up in the main rig and WOW what a sound this thing has. The trademark AT brightness/forwardness is there, but Joe Morello's cymbals never sounded better. Definitely a keeper. My neighbor uses a 440MLb and we're going to do a comparison.
Oh, and the table cleaned up nicely. I never had one that sets tracking force and antiskate with one knob.The fact that the Signet was mounted on such a gentle automatic probably preserved it.
So the moral of the story is: Remember to keep looking for those diamonds in the rough (on second thought, please don't!)
$25 later the table was tucked away in the car, and back at home, the cart looks like this:
I mounted it up in the main rig and WOW what a sound this thing has. The trademark AT brightness/forwardness is there, but Joe Morello's cymbals never sounded better. Definitely a keeper. My neighbor uses a 440MLb and we're going to do a comparison.
Oh, and the table cleaned up nicely. I never had one that sets tracking force and antiskate with one knob.The fact that the Signet was mounted on such a gentle automatic probably preserved it.
So the moral of the story is: Remember to keep looking for those diamonds in the rough (on second thought, please don't!)
