dnewma04
The Healer
First, please excuse the horrid pics, I took these with very poor lighting in the room.
I picked up this turntable yesterday from a local CL ad. The seller was flooded with emails regarding the TT. I told him that if he wanted to honor the deal, that I would certainly buy them, but at the same time that I would understand if he wanted to take one of the offers he received. He said a deal was a deal, so I made plans to pick them up on the way to the SMAC meet at Squidward's place. Got to his house and found that the extremely dusty Nak was just about perfect under all the dust. Including all of the original documentation. The cartridge is a Klipsch MCZ-7 boron low output MC cart.
I talked audio with him for a while and he mentioned he had a Luxman C-300 and told me a little about his prior systems. The C-300 power cord was cut off because the dog chewed through it so I couldn't test, but cosmetically, it's a gem in a nice walnut enclosure.
Well, today, I finally had a chance to clean up (to some degree) and hook up the Nak and despite the low output, I can tell it's something special already. The record centering system is absolutely amazing. A record I know to be about 1/16" off center was shifted over and there was NO lateral movement in the cart, whatsoever. Additionally, it's an autoreturn turntable and just the epitome of easy to use. Tomorrow, I'm going to do my best to get the luxman power wire replaced so I can test the cart with a little more output.
Will report back later when I get more time listening, but if this thing proves to be reliable, it might be an oracle beater.
I picked up this turntable yesterday from a local CL ad. The seller was flooded with emails regarding the TT. I told him that if he wanted to honor the deal, that I would certainly buy them, but at the same time that I would understand if he wanted to take one of the offers he received. He said a deal was a deal, so I made plans to pick them up on the way to the SMAC meet at Squidward's place. Got to his house and found that the extremely dusty Nak was just about perfect under all the dust. Including all of the original documentation. The cartridge is a Klipsch MCZ-7 boron low output MC cart.
I talked audio with him for a while and he mentioned he had a Luxman C-300 and told me a little about his prior systems. The C-300 power cord was cut off because the dog chewed through it so I couldn't test, but cosmetically, it's a gem in a nice walnut enclosure.
Well, today, I finally had a chance to clean up (to some degree) and hook up the Nak and despite the low output, I can tell it's something special already. The record centering system is absolutely amazing. A record I know to be about 1/16" off center was shifted over and there was NO lateral movement in the cart, whatsoever. Additionally, it's an autoreturn turntable and just the epitome of easy to use. Tomorrow, I'm going to do my best to get the luxman power wire replaced so I can test the cart with a little more output.
Will report back later when I get more time listening, but if this thing proves to be reliable, it might be an oracle beater.
You done good.
