Technics SL-Q2

Nice piece. Well built at a time when the basic Technics DD tts were getting a bit plastic-y. It's a whole lot nicer than, e.g., the roughly equivalent, non-quartz locked SL-D2 semiauto DD tt of roughly similar vintage.
I used one as our "daily driver" for a few years; supplanted the much, much much more expensive Marantz (Clearaudio OEM) TT15S1 I'd bought because it bettered it in every respect and the arm's heavy enough to track a low compliance MC cartridge.


Of course, mine was a dump find, so the "value proposition" was off the charts.

DSC_2461 by Mark Hardy, on Flickr

spinnin2 by Mark Hardy, on Flickr

No adjustable pitch, though, on the quartz-locked SL-Q2, so the Mrs. won't be able to scratch-mix or beat-bop or whatever the hep cool kids call it. Yo.

vinylengine has the manuel manual for it, if you're curious/interested.

Given the current insanity of prices in general and all things vinyl in particular -- that price seems extremely fair if it is in good working condition.

PS It should sound darned fine with a Grado -- the lush, sonorous tone of the Grado MI cartridges is pretty much the antihesis of AM radio sound. In fact, listen to The Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here when you get it -- it's like in The Wizard of Oz when the world turns Technicolor when the static-y radio programme fades out and that acoustic guitar part starts.