With broken cantilever. Genuine spares cost £148.50.
Excellent sound quality when working.
Turntables
Gold Note Mediterraneo turntable in walnut – £4250
Ex-dem £4250.
Hardly used.
Walnut is the best sounding version.
With B5.1 arm and dust cover.
Electronic speed control.
Class-leading sound quality and ease of use.
Will include new cartridge!
Retail is £5445.
Correction: These images are of my original Olive wood demonstrator, not the walnut which is darker.
SME 3S arm
In good condition with damping trough.
Pink Triangle PT00 with top of the range Origin Live DC Ultra kit – £950
Serviced by Funk Firm with Funk Firm Achromat and acrylic armboard.
Recent top of the range Option 5 Origin Live DC Ultra motor kit and their biggest upgrade transformer power supply costing £1185.
Excellent 3D depth and emotional involvement.
MAY SEPARATE ORIGIN LIVE PARTS.
Gold Note Tuscany Gold cartridge – £2795
Top of the range Moving Coil with silver coils.
Amazing detail and even-handedness.
Very neutral.
Will consider exchange for a Miyajima cartridge which has a deliberately warmer tone.
Not run-in yet – less than 50 hours.
Can be inspected.
£6200 retail.
The Tuscany Gold phono cartridge features the smallest, highest precision micro-coils Gold Note has ever produced. Featuring one of the shortest and stiffest cantilevers available, the Tuscany Gold is able to guarantee great tracking ability that allows the cartridge to be matched with almost any tonearm on the market. The revised body of the Tuscany Gold made of 7000 silicon alloy injected with semi-fluid polymers provides total vibration control for a top audio performance. Due to its excellent internal impedance of 40 ohm the Tuscany Gold can be easily matched with MC active phono preamps without any Step-Up transformer.
Specifications
MC Low Output Phono Cartridge
– Output level: 0.15mV
– Frequency response: 10-70000Hz
– Impedance: 40ohm
– Suggested load: >400ohm
– Compliance: 15×10-6cm/dyne
– Channel separation: >35dB
– Suggested tracking weight: 1.4 to 2.0g
– Cantilever: extra short magnesium alloy
– Diamond: Super Micro Elliptical shape
– Mounting hole diamond distance: 5mm
Physical
– Total weight: 11g
Finishes
– Body: solid block machined hardened aluminium and Sustarin
– Color: black body with gold logo and name
Gold Note B5 10.5 inch arm with bearing upgrade – £550
Ex-dem.
Ceramic bearing upgrade from top of range Betania arm.
Rega 23mm threadless collar type fit.
270mm spindle to bearing centre.
Retail £780.
Audioflair choke DC turntable power supply £550
Mains powered 12v DC adjustable (from 2v) turntable power supply in extruded aluminium case. Superb component quality such as Hammond choke, Jensen 4 pole capacitors, Audionote 2w tantalums mounted on ebony block, flat silver wiring, ASC polypropylene and oil PSU capacitor.
Gold Note PH-11 MM/MC phono stage, Ex-dem – £2695
Gold Note PH-11 MM/MC 3 box phono stage – ex-dem.
Quadruple battery powered MM/MC state of the art phono stage with intelligent battery charging system. Amazing ‘inky black’ background silences.
Same circuit as the PH-10 but PH-11 adds higher quality componentry, superior outboard power supply and intelligent charging system.
Great insight into the musical performance – amazing piece of kit.
Retail is £3995.