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Old 9th Jul 2011, 8:47 pm   #7
Darren-UK
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Default The Collaro Conquest in brief.

Mention has been made within this guide of the Collaro Conquest and Studio decks. As these decks are fairly common, a brief description may prove useful.

Setting up and operating is essentially the same as most other autochangers, but with one major difference which may catch out the uninitiated. This difference being the fact that there is no record size detector visible on the deck.

With records on the stacker, the deck operates as follows:

1) Tonearm lifts and moves across to physically touch the side of the stacked record(s). This is the point at which the deck 'finds out' which size of record it's to play.

2. Tonearm then returns to its rest position.

3. Record drops onto turntable.

4. Tonearm moves across for the second time, but at a lower height to clear other stacked records, then lowers onto the dropped record and play begins.

5. The process is repeated for every record on the stacker, after which the deck shuts down in the conventional manner.

The images below show a Collaro Studio deck which is similar to, and operates on the same principle as, the Collaro Conquest. Note the absence of a Record Size Detector; the third image shows how the tonearm touches the records to determine size.
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