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Im open to reasonable offers, no low balls. Just got it out of storage after 20 twenty years of non use. (Reno) Ariston belt drive turntable comes installed with Grace 707 tonearm and a Sonos Blue Gold cartridge. Item will be packed with utmost care and shipped via FedEx for buyer and seller protection through shipping. Ariston Turntable - 1,150 (Reno) Ariston Turntable. Item is sold "as-is" with no refunds or exchanges accepted.
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It is designed to extract musical information from the record, adding as little of its own character to the sound as possible, and in this it succeeds admirably - What HiFi
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In conclusion I would not hesitate to recommend the latest Ariston RD80 to anyone in the market for a mid-priced turntable. The RD80 is quite simply the finest value turntable available today. Two piece, fully machined concave platter with screw down record clamp. Like our other models, it is entirely gimmick free, and provides simply the best platform for carrying a vinyl disc without allowing that disc or any other extraneous energy sources to interfere with the stylus to groove interface. It has the capacity to extract the maximum amount of information from the disc. They’re sufficiently tweakable to make great projects, or you might just want to listen to it instead! The RD80SL is the one to go for, but it wasn’t dramatically better than the original version and ultimately the condition of the unit is more important than the model.The RD80 maintains the Ariston philosophy of excellence of design, together with top class performance. These days, you can pick a good one up for £200, fitted with a Linn LV-V tonearm or suchlike. In absolute terms, it was a little noisier, looser and less polished than high end decks of the day, but sufficiently close to them to be considered a bargain at half their price.
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The RB80 was no world-beater – it was a fair way behind an RD11 or indeed the then favourite Linn LP12 – but did offer enough of a performance upgrade from Planar 3 to more than justify its price premium. Compared to a Rega Planar 3, it had a deeper and more tuneful bass, a wider soundstage and fractionally more incisive treble. It was bright, breezy and lyrical, and tonally slightly on the warm side. When properly set-up and the arm cable correctly dressed, the deck had an open, bouncy, musical sound with a good amount of detail. Finally, a new thick and heavily damped rubber mat was specified. It also added fine adjustment of the motor pulley/belt angle, and gained access to the tonearm underneath without having to remove the baseplate. The platter was also revised, now machined slightly concave on its upper surface for improved record-to-mat contact. Eighteen months later, in autumn 1983, the RD80SL appeared with changes to the electrical insulation to meet new Semco-Demco standards. Few people went better than this, as a result.Īt launch, the RD80 cost £180, putting one notch above the Rega Planar 3 – rather than a high quality mid-price deck it had pretensions to be an ‘affordable high end’ design. It was an excellent partner for the Rega in particular, which at £90 was of course a brilliant performer at the price. A variety of types were available, but most RD-80s left dealers wearing Linn Basik LV-V tonearms initially, then Basik LV-Xs and latterly Rega RB300s and Ariston’s own Opus. Rumble was measured at -75dB, a very good if not quite exceptional figure.Īriston’s excellent single-point bearing was fitted, and the 445x360x170mm plinth was a real wood-veneered fibreboard affair, with a wooden armboard and acrylic dustcover. This was substantially worse than rival Japanese quartz-locked direct drives of the day like the Technics SL-120, but was within the 0.1% limit when speed instability becomes really noticeable. As you would expect, it offered 33.3RPM and 45RPM, and held to those speeds well too, with a quoted wow and flutter of 0.08%. Launched in 1982, it was effectively a heavily cost-cut RD11 and followed the classic independently sprung subchassis belt-drive model, using a three-point suspension, AC synchronous motor and 2.6kg two-piece machined mazak platter with screw-down record clamp. The flagship RD11 was a fine high end device, but even more impressive in its own right was surely the RD80, which punched above its weight in the mid-price turntable sector. All the same, its wares sold solidly and certainly deserved to. The Prestwick company got consistently good reviews, but never quite managed to enthuse hi-fi hacks of the day in the way that Linn and Rega did, for example. Ariston Audio produced a range of fine turntables for a decade and a half, despite being no darling of the British hi-fi press.