Experience with Transcriptor Turntables?


Anyone own or have experience with the rather flashy looking (for their time) turntables called Transcriptor, especially with the vestigal arm? Am interested in comments of performance and availability - including parts. Thanks.
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Showing 2 responses by kleinzaches

I bought a Skeleton from a friend back in the 80's. It had been brutalized. Fitted with a Linn arm that weighted about 5 times the vestigial. I sent it to Michael Gammon for reconditioning and just got it back a couple weeks ago. In the process of fine tuning. Swatkins, are you still looking for an answer regarding the bottom glass?
I'm in a similar situation. I have a reconditioned vestigial tonearm, and the color coding on the wiring is not 100% right. But it's easy. With the RCA plugs the pin in the middle is signal and the shield-outer is ground. Right hand plug is red, left is black or white. The right signal on the RCA pin is red, the ground (shield) is green. Left signal (pin) is white, ground is blue. Use a sensitive ohm-meter to match the wires with the cartridge connectors to the right and left pin and shield. When you choose a cartridge remember it has to be high compliance because of the low mass of the vestigial arm. I'm trying an ADC XLM. It still isn't connected, but I'm expecting good results.