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Re: Anyone seen this turntable before? Labcraft??

Craig — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 11:07:00 GMT

tournedos:

Perhaps Labcraft was Australian? (I actually found talk on these on audiokarma.org from two years back, in Oz as well)

As the latter is claimed to be from a library, it makes sense to think that they may have been installed in a desk.

Or what do you think?

Stating to think that they were for library use then. Maybe the one in the first link has been put into a Beogram 1000 plinth after.

Craig

Re: Anyone seen this turntable before? Labcraft??

tournedos — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 08:24:11 GMT

Perhaps Labcraft was Australian? (I actually found talk on these on audiokarma.org from two years back, in Oz as well)

As the latter is claimed to be from a library, it makes sense to think that they may have been installed in a desk.

Or what do you think?

Re: Anyone seen this turntable before? Labcraft??

Dillen — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 08:19:14 GMT

The last one I'm sure was mounted in another furniture of some kind.
It was quite common back then to fit a deck like this into existing furniture and several
B&O record decks could be ordered as build-in modules without cabinets.

Seeing a Labcraft/B&O turntable is a first for me.
Seeing one for sale is even more unusual.
Seeing two for sale at the same time is downright strange.
And both are in Australia - why ?

Martin

Re: Anyone seen this turntable before? Labcraft??

Craig — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 06:46:06 GMT

There is another one also listed in Ausralia. Although the plinth and headshell are missing.

LINK

Craig

Re: Anyone seen this turntable before? Labcraft??

tournedos — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 05:52:32 GMT

Medogsfat:

Personally I don't particularly like the aesthetics, which is often the case when people alter B&O pieces.

I saw the His Master's Voice version at a flea market last summer. That one is butt ugly!

Re: Anyone seen this turntable before? Labcraft??

Dillen — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 01:34:44 GMT

I've seen quite a few 42/609/610/Beogram 1000 based record players
from other producers, HMV, Triotrack, Skandinavisk etc. but
I never saw this one before. Neither did I ever hear about Labcraft.

I agree that the tonearm looks a bit clumsy if compared to B&O's but
it's an interesting deck none-the-less.

The dustcover will probably have been replaced at some point, I don't
think the B&O logo would have been there originally.
On the other hand, the cutouts for the tonearm look original.

Well spotted !

Martin

Re: Anyone seen this turntable before? Labcraft??

Medogsfat — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 19:07:59 GMT

Also looks like a (admittedly offbeat) candidate for adding to our list of Beograms with inbuilt RIAA.

Personally I don't particularly like the aesthetics, which is often the case when people alter B&O pieces.

Chris.

Re: Anyone seen this turntable before? Labcraft??

Peter — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 10:52:16 GMT

Martin is your man for odd decks like these. I am pretty sure we have seen one before though - it is a Beogram 1000 with a different arm fitted. HMV did the same.

Anyone seen this turntable before? Labcraft??

macjonny1 — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 10:17:40 GMT

Spotted this odd turntable on ebay. Anyone know what it is about?

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110523933397&ssPageName=ADME:X:RTQ:AU:1123