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Simon Yorke Series 9Simon Yorke Designs S9 record player
The unit comprises a turntable chassis, bearing and platter, armboard, unipivot tonearm and free-standing motor control unit - complete with remote low-voltage power supply and offering 33,3 and 45,0 r.p.m. switched speeds, coupled to pre-set potentiometers which provide fine calibration adjustment. |
The turntable platter is a finely balanced flywheel, precision machined in solid aluminium, and capped with a solid graphite record mat. The turntable bearing uses a hardened stainless steel shaft revolving in precision bored bushes above a hardened thrust pad.
The tonearm design is optimised for playing 12" vinyl discs. Cartridge output is conveyed via two twisted pairs of Teflon-insulated silver-plated copper wire terminated via miniature gold connectors to insulated RCA phono sockets allowing connections to be made in unbalanced or quasi-balanced modes.
Each machine is a sculpture in its own right, designed and entirely hand-built for the 21st century. Not a mass-market product, nor the genesis of corporate desire, but a simple and beautiful object, functional and dependable, a machine with real character and personality.
Made principally from aluminium, graphite and stainless steel alloys, the record player is finished in a satin lustre and supplied, together with all necessary equipment and operating instructions, in a strong foam-lined package designed to withstand acute freight handling.
Provision of an ideal support is of major importance, as is finding and properly installing a well-matched cartridge. Then, and only then, can you sit back and bask in the analogue domain.
| Turntable specifications: | Measurement: | Unit: | |
| Speed range: | 33,45,78 | rpm | |
| Platter diameter: | 300 | mm | |
| Platter mass: | 11.7 | kg | |
| Player nett mass: | 48.0 | kg | |
| Nominal height (excl. baseplate): | 125 | mm | |
| Dimensions (baseplate): wd | 580 x 358 | mm | |
| Package dimensions: wdh | 670x490x320 | mm | |
| Packaged mass: | 51 | kg | |
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