I still hope to restore it to health someday. Unfortunately, though the automatic set-down and lift-off work as well as ever, a dirty contact in 33/45/off switch causes the turntable to grind to a halt in the middle of a side. Combined with a brush it makes an efficient record-cleaning machine. One of its most endearing traits is that when the motor is not engaged, the heavy platter spins freely. It sounded-and still sounds-fantastic, with solid bass response. The Luxman has a heavy plastic-covered metal base, an aluminum platter with rubber mat, and a beautiful tonearm with filament-weight anti-skating. It is a direct-drive and fully automatic model bought in 1983 before I became aware of the audiofool preference for belt drive (less motor-induced smearing) and manual operation (more reliable in the longterm). Let me tell you how and why I acquired it.īack story: I'm also the satisfied owner of a Luxman PD-289 turntable. There isn't a single component in my rack that I don't respect and depend on. Readers may already have noticed that my speaker and receiver reviews have begun name-checking a new reference signal source.
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