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To my memory it was mainly B&O and Studer/Revox that produced these kind of record decks.I posed earlier a post about some kind of BG4000 copy made in the former Soviet union.A friend of mine showed on his facebook a Fisher , 80th-style deck that also was tantgential.That brought me to this question, which brands did tangetial system ?Anyone with more memories ?
Christian
My re-capped M75 are my precious diamonds.
In the 80s, quite a few Japanese makes produced tangential decks - Technics produced some very neat decks the size of an LP sleeve with the arm in the lid, Mitsibushi produced a vertical deck, as did Sharp. The Technics decks were well liked in reviews and well built.
One of the other vertical decks had two arms, one for each side so you didn't have to turn the record over!!
Peter
Mitsubishi made a vertical version and looking quickly on ebay.de there are quite a few around from different makers.
http://www.ebay.de/sch/HeimAudio-HiFi-/14969/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=tangential+plattenspieler&rt=nc&LH_PrefLoc=2
There are some very expensive tangential arm assemblies only being produced which a Google search will show.
If you take a peek at these images then there are several B&O tangentials and also some monstrosities (including a bizarre Thorens 124 set-up).
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=tangential+arm+turntable&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=xPfTUp-HAu_60gWD3YHgAg&ved=0CC0QsAQ&biw=1680&bih=934
Some great engineering though - goodness only knows what some of them sound like!
Dave.
My favourite is the Pioneer PL-L1000.
It was Pierre Clément, a Frenchman engineer in audio, who patented the system as found in Beograms, in the mid-sixties!
http://www.proactif.com/rb/platine.htm
Jacques
Back in the 70's Harman Kardon made the ST-7 and 8, I think that was the nomenclature, table that used the Rabco tangential tracking arm. We sold these, they were a bear to keep working. The guts were a shaft that rotated, and a rubber wheel attached to the arm carriage that as the arm moved inwards tracking the groove would turn the wheel from straight ahead, that is 90 deg from the shaft, and that would create a force that would cause the arm to move back straight ahead aligned with the groove. Man when these got out of alignment they got weird. You'd see them tracking the album in all different angles.
http://www.thevintageknob.org/harman_kardon-ST-7.html
When setup well they worked quite well though, and you could choose the cartridge you wanted.
Jeff
I'm afraid I'm recovering from the BeoVirus.
Thanks for many good answers, , yes now i remember many of the the small technics.The stand up ugle sharp intergrated versions aso.
Sony also did some that looks like video recorders (with ejectable platter) ! That could have been an idea for a B&O pizzabox (5000;5500;6500;7000) turntable no ?
SONY : PS FL7 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ylpu7PoCzw
image from : vinylengine.com
Jacquesboo: Sony also did some that looks like video recorders (with ejectable platter) ! That could have been an idea for a B&O pizzabox (5000;5500;6500;7000) turntable no ? SONY : PS FL7 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ylpu7PoCzw image from : vinylengine.com
Almost like Marantz I had.
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Also Luxman, for example
Marantz...
Yamaha...
I check regulary second hand market on adds, if we dont include B&O, tangetial records decks seems to be incredible rare as second hands.
There was one, a Panasonic I think, that could be wall mounted and had the option of a pair of brackets to sit it on the shelf raised up at about a 45 deg angle, that actually made it into the Museum of Modern Art.
Found it:
Technics SL-10