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how good is an akai ap006 turntable?

Taking out the trash one day I noticed the top to a turntable in the recycle bin. Right away I peeked into the trash dumpster and low and behold there lay an akai ap006 turntable. It is a fairly heavy sucker about 20 to 25 pounds. I plugged it in and it gets up to speed very well. The speed ajust and strobe work. I need to fix the rca input cables which I will switch out for digital audio cable anyway. What I am wondering is does anyone know about these turntables and their quality or lack thereof. I would appreciate any info and thank you in advance
gastondidi
satch
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Judging from the specs and reading the comments around the web, it's a decent but not outstanding TT. But the looks are gorgeous IMHO. here's some info:

http://www.thevintageknob.org/THEVAULT1/AP006/AP006.html#
gastondidi OP
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commcat-I have been perusing this sight for quite a while now and have gleaned much useful information from it. No disrespect intended but I am not in the habit of diving into dumpsters. I will however, if the opportunity arises, open my hands willingly to pennies falling from heaven. Satch- I thank you for the link. It is indeed a fairly pretty beast.
portgag
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I bought an entire Akai system in Dubai in 1977 including the AP-006. I t works as well today as iot did when it was first switched on 34 years ago. In that time I have changed the stylus about 4 times but I have not needed to do anything else to the unit at all. It is brilliant.
I have the manuals for the AP-006 Record Deck, the GXC-730D Cassette deck and the AA-1040 Receiver if anyone needs the details
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