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Old 8th Jul 2009, 10:32 am   #28
Beobloke
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Join Date: Oct 2007
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Default Re: BSR Record Player Decks

The 710 and 810 were impressive units but the book is quite right about their operation. Their automatic mechanism was so complicated and difficult to set up it was a fine line between the auto-trip not operating at all and operating far too soon in the middle of the record!

I restored one once and was quite impressed by its performance when I finally got it running after an entire weekend of tweaking (and swearing...) - it was very different to the rest of the shoddy tat (IMHO of course!) that BSR churned out.

After this, I did what my dad told me to when I first developed my obsession with turntables at the age of about 10, and stuck to Garrards!
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