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Postby Fishtails » 16 May 2012 12:22

Hi people!

Just wondering what your best freebee turntable is?

Maybe you found it or were given it.

Its time to make us all jealous. I met a guy recently who found a thorens on the side of the road.

To make it easier lets make it under $20 coz thats almost free!

To get things started i will have to say my best freebee turntable find is the kenwood kd-74f linear tracking turntable i found on the side of the road just the other day. It is surprisingly very good. All i needed to do was solder new rca cables on and it works a treat and sounds great. It may look a bit 90's but ..hey..it was free and is my only linear tracker!

Cheers!!
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Re: Your best freebee!

Postby fscl » 16 May 2012 14:41

Thorens TD-280 Mk IV from the electronics recycle area at the town dump. Fine adjustment of the Thorens end of record pick up solved the tonearm staying down (probably tossed for that reason)..... :) Just missing the anti-skate weight but a bit of monofilament (goldfish test :) ) line and a sinker solved that...... mated with a DL-110 and getting great vinyl xfers....... :) :) :)

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Re: Your best freebee!

Postby Squiffything » 16 May 2012 18:32

Systemdek IIX from me pa for my project and coming soon Quad power and pre amps and the Mission Floorstanders from me Step Dad.
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Re: Your best freebee!

Postby jake » 16 May 2012 20:25

Paid $40 for a Pioneer PL-71 turntable at a garage sale once, which I thought was too much, but got it home and found a clean Shure V-15 mounted on it! Gave the table to my sister, got some years of sweetness out of the V-15. The Kharma wheel spun in my favor that time.
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Re: Your best freebee!

Postby pogo » 16 May 2012 20:27

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Re: Your best freebee!

Postby beat_truck » 16 May 2012 20:46

A few weeks ago, I picked up an Onkyo CP 1010a with an Ortofon OM10 cartridge for $10. Works perfect. I wet sanded and polished the dust cover and it looks near mint now and sounds great too. :)
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Re: Your best freebee!

Postby tesla » 17 May 2012 02:42

How about a TD 124 (Mk I) with a split counterweight SME 3012? Oh, and two Quad II monoblocks.

My "for a small price" finds are as follows:

Marantz 10B $25

'54 Fender tweed Champ, $25
McIntosh Mc 75 $15
McIntosh MA 75 $25
McIntosh MC 30 free

JBL L65 (pair) $40
JBL L100T3 (Pair) $15

Paragon 12A Tube Pre (traded for junky ol' Soundcraftsman amp)

ESS AMT 1 (pair) $25

'61 Hammond A100 (like a B3) organ with Leslie 222 rotating speaker for $200.

And many more....









Fishtails wrote:Hi people!

Just wondering what your best freebee turntable is?

Maybe you found it or were given it.

Its time to make us all jealous. I met a guy recently who found a thorens on the side of the road.

To make it easier lets make it under $20 coz thats almost free!

To get things started i will have to say my best freebee turntable find is the kenwood kd-74f linear tracking turntable i found on the side of the road just the other day. It is surprisingly very good. All i needed to do was solder new rca cables on and it works a treat and sounds great. It may look a bit 90's but ..hey..it was free and is my only linear tracker!

Cheers!!
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Re: Your best freebee!

Postby tom6to1 » 17 May 2012 03:42

Neighbour was having a moving sale. For $10, a Sansui SR-B200 turntable. Got it home and found it worked but belt was shrivelled and broken in pieces. $15 fixed that. Obviously owned by a smoker and cover was scratched but hinges were fine. Some cleaner, some polish on the cover and with a bit of elbow grease I have a working, decent sounding, belt-drive turntable. Not a Thorens, but hey only $25.
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Re: Your best freebee!

Postby G Doggett » 17 May 2012 08:48

The Logic DM101 I am currently restoring only cost me the freight charge to get it from Christchurh to Auckland , $50.
The previous owner had too many projects and wanted it to go to a good home , - mine !!!
Cheers :D :D :D
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Re: Your best freebee!

Postby Beobloke » 17 May 2012 12:56

I once paid £5 for a Rega Planar 3/RB300/Coral 777MC from my loal dump - it needed a new belt!

Best freebie was a walnut cabinet containing a Garrard 301, Decca FFSS arm and cartridge, Quad 22, AM2 and pair of II power amps. The previous owner was a loudspeaker designer and used to use it back in the 1960s as his reference system but he wanted it to go to a good home after years of no use.
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Re: Your best freebee!

Postby jc_the_trucker » 17 May 2012 14:47

Haven't come across a free or almost free tt yet, mostly because my parents would give me the "why do you need another one" speech and in all fairness it's their house. However, I do love my hand-me-down cd changer. It's a Sony CDP-C525 that my dad bought at some point (even he doesn't remember when exactly). It was free to me, it sounds as good as any cd player I've yet encountered, and it hasn't had a problem in the last 20 years, so why replace it?
Are we there yet? No, never there yet. Keep it rollin', we're paid by the mile.
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Re: Your best freebee!

Postby Judas68fr » 17 May 2012 19:49

For me it was a Scott TD68-A (DD), got it for free from a friend who wanted to throw it away (just had to put a new cartridge and solder RCA plugs).

I used it for 2 years without any troubles (I gave it to my mother, still running fine).

I then picked up a Dual 1209 in my office basement (for free again). A few drops of fine oil later, a new cartridge, and it was running just as if it was new again. I find it sounding way better than my brothers Rega P2 (with the MDF platter). I will offer her a new plinth as soon as I got the time.
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Re: Your best freebee!

Postby Hepokatti » 18 May 2012 00:03

Technics SL-QD3.. neighbour threw it away while moving. I was very happy with it despite its cheap construct, because it tracked really well. Sadly I sold it for peanuts, which I regret now. Oh well, I have too many junky TTs already.
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Re: Your best freebee!

Postby bauzace50 » 18 May 2012 00:26

Hi,

My best freebie ever was passed on by my audiophile uncle around 1966. It was a Thorens TD-124 with one SME 3012 original model, and two Ortofon SPU-T/E, PLUS two sets of AR 1W with JansZen "130" mid/tweeters plus the original AR3t (midrange and tweeter). Oh, boy, that was special, and later I traded in the 3012 directly for one SME 3009-II-Improved directly from the factory in England, for a special price.

Hugely special freebie.
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