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Edward Huggins · 18th Oct 2020, 9:19 am

Customers do have high expectations of these volume produced basic decks and many queries are Posted here - and it seems, more of late. The earliest BSR Autochangers had sturdy fully shielded induction motors and quite heavy steel platters. These were needed in order to cope with varying weights - indeed up to a load of ten 12" 78s. Years later the rather nasty BSR C109 model, and it's later variants, usully had a "stack" of maybe just three 110 gram LPs - if that. I would not attempt to faff with it. Such a deck was entirely suited to a mid-range Stereogram. We had a trade account with BSR (mainly to replace old 78rpm units) and they always quoted us a + or - 3% speed variation.

18th Oct 2020, 9:19 am	#14
Edward Huggins Dekatron Join Date: Sep 2015 Location: Southwold, Suffolk, UK. Posts: 8,324	Re: Accuracy of BSR turntables. Customers do have high expectations of these volume produced basic decks and many queries are Posted here - and it seems, more of late. The earliest BSR Autochangers had sturdy fully shielded induction motors and quite heavy steel platters. These were needed in order to cope with varying weights - indeed up to a load of ten 12" 78s. Years later the rather nasty BSR C109 model, and it's later variants, usully had a "stack" of maybe just three 110 gram LPs - if that. I would not attempt to faff with it. Such a deck was entirely suited to a mid-range Stereogram. We had a trade account with BSR (mainly to replace old 78rpm units) and they always quoted us a + or - 3% speed variation. __________________ Edward.