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__mark__ said:
I can't find any indication on eBay of previous auctions ending around £15000, the last EMT was a 930 and it didn't sell at £3500.
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You won't see many 927s go through eBay because there simply aren't that many around. The was a restored one offered at around £20K a while back: no idea if it sold, but it doesn't seem to be around any more.

This is on a best offer, and the audiogon ad was at $10K, so if you are seriously interested you should probably try around £6-7K.
 
Well, neither are really to my aesthetic taste (and I'm not keen on the fluted plinth either).

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Patrick Dixon said:
Only by you, I think!
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Erm...not really............

jcbrum said:
It is to my eyes a thing of beauty, ... certainly far in excess of an LP12 for example.
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JC - if you think that is a thing of beauty you want to get yourself down to a specialist Army Surplus supplier- you will go weak at the knees when you see some of that old equipment. Alternatively, you could paint your Apple with Hammerite.
 
Robert said:
Very nice, but I'd have to have a fluted plinth.
My old LP12 had a wonderful rosewood plinth but they didn't flute those. To me the fluting is pure LP12.
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I prefer the fluted plinths as well.

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EMT more durable than an LP12, don't be stupid the thing would stop working the first time one of those fragile valves failed. Built to last for sure from an engineering point of view, sadly not in the same league as todays technology from an electronics point of view.
 
I must have missed the amazing advance in technology that has lifted current TTs onto a whole new level of performance in the last 50 years.

And I agree with JC- the restored one is indeed a thing of beauty. But then I get the horn for ultra utilitarian over engineered bits of kit, you can keep your poxy looking wooden box and elastic band as I don't go in for all this audiophile bling/tartiness, maybe that's where the advancements have come? shinier looking boxes that the wife will approve of!!
 
spacey said:
I'd rather have a new (well as new as) SL1210mk5/6 for dance/electronica. I simply prefer advancements to nostalgia.
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What arm and cartridge would you put on a 1210?

I've compared the 927's little brother, the 930, against three 1210's.
 
sq225917 said:
EMT more durable than an LP12, don't be stupid the thing would stop working the first time one of those fragile valves failed. Built to last for sure from an engineering point of view, sadly not in the same league as todays technology from an electronics point of view.
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Signal valves aren't particularly fragile. They'll easily last 50 years, which is usually longer than the capacitors they're in-circuit with. A modern switched-mode PSU is probably less durable.

(The valves are only in the phono stage btw, and the later phono stages were solid state anyway.)
 
Oh well in that case Patrick I'll dump my SME 10 and Uphorik and get one before they sell out.
 
YNWOAN said:
... JC - if you think that is a thing of beauty you want to get yourself down to a specialist Army Surplus supplier- you will go weak at the knees when you see some of that old equipment.
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Ha-Ha, ... bin there, done that, ... I used to have a beautiful, all valve, Tektronix oscilloscope from an American nuclear sub. I did think it was a work of art. It was mounted in a 19" rack drawer-slide cabinet, and lots of other mil stuff as well. All sold-on in the '80's to free up space for babies bedrooms.


YNWOAN said:
..... Alternatively, you could paint your Apple with Hammerite ...
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That would not be appropriate because they are beautiful in their own right, thanks to Brit designer Jon Ive, said to be influenced by the 1960s German designer legend Dieter Rams.

I did have a complete Apple II system with two Shugart FD drives and a Rodime 10 megabyte Hard disk, - long before IBM PC's were available.

I sold it to my accountant, who was so impressed with Visicalc, he paid me more than it cost me.

JC
 
flatpopely said:
...To get one fully restored, just how much would that be?
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To get the OP EMT 927 fully restored in terms of sound quality should cost less than £400 in parts and a couple of hours of work. The parts would include:

idler wheel
new main bearing ball - no photos shown of this. The existing one might be fine
set of motor capacitors
oil - 25cc's for the main bearing plus a few drops for the motor, idler wheel, felt ring
Possibly a new felt ring. From the photos the one already on looks fine
Lint free cloth plus alcohol for cleaning the inside of the platter plus the main bearing and motor spindle


You don't need to be an EMT guru to restore these. They were designed to be maintained by the Radio Station odd-job man.


And then you'd need a 12" arm - with the EMT 997 being the obvious but pricey candidate. A cartridge. Phono amplification if you want stereo and not just mono.
 
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