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Overview
Twenty to thirty years ago, Audio Trends owner Stephen Lee was really into vinyl, and so were his customers. It was our core business. Sure, the CD put a damper on things for a while, but many serious audio buffs didn’t waiver and now a new generation of younger ones (and some not so young) are just discovering the ‘magic’ of vinyl! Who would have guessed that turntables and vinyl records would still be popular in this day and age! Surprise, surprise, but not only are they still around, but popularity is growing. Come and talk to us about some of our present day favourites. Audio Trends stock: Denon NAD Project Rega |
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| Cambridge Audio 540P Phono Pre-Amplifier |
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Description
Cambridge 540P: Extending the functionality of Cambridge Audio's critically acclaimed integrated stereo Azur amplifiers and AV receivers are two phono pre-amplifiers. The entry-level 540P is a high quality Moving Magnet design featuring single-ended 'Class A' gain stages and discrete transistors instead of the more common integrated circuits. This gives less cross-talk and interference across the signal path. The 540P employs an active RIAA equalisation system. The rear panel benefits from gold plated input connectors to minimise signal path interference and reduce surface degradation. An external power supply comes as standard. |
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| Cambridge Audio 640P Phono Pre-Amplifier |
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Description
Cambridge 640P: The 640P phono pre-amplifier (sometimes known as a phono stage) also uses superior amplification circuitry for its MM and MC stages to provide the lowest possible distortion and noise. In addition, the flagship model employs multi-parallel capacitors to achieve exceptional RIAA accuracy of only 0.3dB up to 50kHz and features a defeatable subsonic filter. The Azur 640P phono pre-amplifier employs a comprehensively specified Moving Magnet stage, as well as the higher gain needed for compatibility with high-end Moving Coil (MC) cartridges. This raft of technologies combines to offer a hugely dynamic, involving and open sound. |
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| Denon DP-29F Belt Drive Turntable |
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Description
Denon DP-29F: Looking for a budget Turntable that has some good features? The Denon DP-29F includes a built-in RIAA Phono equaliser to hook it up to your system through a standard analog or auxiliary connection. The DP-29F has been precision manufactured with rigid diecast aluminium to produce uniform inertial mass for perfectly stable turntable rotation, an essential component of high fidelity sound during playback.
The turntable employs an automated system that starts playing the record with the single touch of a button and finishes play at the end of the record by returning the tone arm to its original position and stopping turntable rotation. There is also a manual lifter mechanism and can be operated at the 33 1/3 or 45 rpm speed. It comes with an MM cartridge so that you can begin to enjoy your analog record collection as soon as you connect the DP-29F to your home hi-fi system… |
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| NAD C-555 Belt Drive Turntable |
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Description
NAD C-555: The NAD C-555 Turntable has everything needed to extract the very best from your LP collection. A perfectly matched record playing system that includes the highly reviewed Goldring Elektra moving magnet cartridge pre-mounted and ready to play. A non-resonant Perspex dust cover is also included. Check with us for stock availability… |
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| NAD PP-3 Phono Pre-Amplifier |
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Description
NAD PP3: Suitable for both Moving Magnet (MM) and Moving Coil (MC) turntables, the NAD PP3 is a compact yet flexible turntable pre-amplifier. Connect your turntable at one end and your amplifier at the other and you're ready to go.
The PP3 also incorporates an analogue to digital converter and a USB output allowing you to convert you vinyl collection to MP3 and other digital formats. There's also an additional line input, so you can connect your cassette deck, enabling you to convert your tapes (or any other source) to MP3 too!
A great pre-amp and digital conversion solution, the NAD PP3 is a flexible and innovative turntable and analogue to digital converter, in one. |
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| Project Debut 3 Belt Drive Turntable |
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Description
Project Debut 3: Project has been manufacturing belt-drive turntables from their European factory for more than 50 years. The Project Debut is an excellent, well built fully manual belt drive turntable that has been well engineered and yet is very modestly priced. It comes complete with an Ortofon MM cartridge which can be easily updated with a variety of styli if desired. The steel platter with felt mat and low-tolerance chrome-plated stainless-steel axle runs on a polished ball bearing in a brass bearing housing.
The head shell and arm tube are formed from a single aluminium work piece, rotation allows adjustment of needle azimuth despite a fixed head shell. The motor is also decoupled from both the platter and the base to reduce vibration and the tone-arm bearing comprises inverted hardened stainless-steel points. Speeds: 33 1/3 and 45 rpm. Price includes an Acrylic Dust Cover… |
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| Project Debut 3 SB Belt Drive Turntable/Phono Pre-amp |
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Description
Project Debut 3SB: Basically the same as the Debut except that it has a built-In Phono Pre-amplifier. This makes it ideally suited for many the many amplifiers/receivers today that do not include a Phono input with RIAA equalisation or have a really basic (read low quality!) Phono stage. In addition to 33 1/3 and 45 rpm, this model can be optimised to play 78’s. However, you will need to purchase a suitable cartridge/stylus assembly to suit the 78 records and of course we can help… |
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| Project Xpression MK II Turntable |
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Description
Project Xpression Mk2: If you are looking for a budget turntable which combines low pricing with audiophile design elements, and which performs better than many digital music sources as well, then the Project Xpression MK II is the right product for you!
The plinth, drive and platter of this model are similar to those used in the very first Project model, but the tonearm, sonically one of the most important components of a turntable, is of much higher quality. The tonearm's design efficiently leads vibrations away from the cartridge into the mounting board, ensuring the precise tracking of the record groove by the stylus, and allowing fine adjustment of the vertical tracking angle. High quality cartridges may be fitted to the Project Xpression MK II, resulting in even better performance. |
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| Project RPM-5 Belt Drive Turntable/Phono Pre-amp |
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Description
Project RPM-5: So, you have a really good record collection, including some highly prized Sheffield Lab or Mobile Fidelity Original Master Recordings, then this is the turntable for you! The Project RPM 5 builds on the quality of the entry point models, but starts to raise the engineering bar with better tone-arm and platter bearings for superb reproduction. Ahh! That superb analogue sound! The RPM 5 is a manual Belt Drive Turntable fitted with a standard or universal ½ inch mount head-shell allowing for installation of a wide range of cartridges.
To improve record stability, a heavy duty clamp is included. The MDF platter has a felt mat and a low-tolerance chrome-plated stainless-steel axle runs on a Teflon bearing plate in a sintered bronze bearing housing. A Project Precision 9 Tone-arm is fitted and interestingly its bearing comprises inverted hardened stainless-steel points and sapphire thrust pads. The head shell and arm tube are formed from a single aluminium work piece and rotation allows adjustment of needle azimuth. The motor is decoupled to reduce vibration. Speeds: 33 1/3 and 45 rpm only. Price includes an Acrylic Dust Cover… |
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| Rega P1 Belt Drive Turntable |
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Description
Rega P1: Ever proud of its reputation as a defender of high quality sounds at great prices, Rega is delighted to announce it’s new progeny, the P1 turntable.
The first new addition to the Planar range of turntables for some time, we hope you’ll agree it’s worth the wait.
Featuring a completely new tonearm the RB100, this entry-level model comes ready-fitted with a cartridge, proving once more that you don’t need loads of dosh to afford a cracking record player.
For over 30 years, Rega has been the first name on everyone's lips when it comes to turntables. With the new P1, Rega quality is now available at the lowest price ever. |
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| Rega P2 Belt Drive Turntable |
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Description
Rega P2: Ever proud of it's reputation as a defender of high quality sounds at great prices, Rega is delighted to announce the release of the brand new P2 turntable.
For over 30 years, Rega has been the first name on everyone's lips when it comes to turntables and the return of the P2 to the planar range completes the line up, making rega even more accessible to music lovers. |
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| Rega P3 - 24 Belt Drive Turntable |
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Description
Rega P3-24: The inspiration for the design of the P3 - 24 did not come from an evolution of the last P3 2000 model. Rather it came from re visiting the virtues of the original planar 3 turntable. These virtues gave us our design brief:
High performance motor
The P3 - 24 uses the same very high quality low vibration motor, which is used in the P5 & 9 turntables. The clever controlling circuitry can be adjusted for phase angle of the motor coils resulting in very low vibration levels from the complete motor assembly.
This design change gives a considerable performance increase over the P3 2000.
The TT PSU first developed for the P7 turntable is a high quality outboard power supply; the TTPSU can be used as an affordable upgrade with the P3 - 24 turntable. Offering increased musical performance, by conditioning the electrical supply with a synthesised low distortion crystal controlled ac input. This also gives the added convenience of electronic speed change control.
RB301
The famous RB300 has been modified to improve production and give a higher musical sound performance. An improved vertical bearing housing has been used, which gives improved rigidly in the tonearms mounting, reducing the stresses in the main 13mm bearings. This assembly is topped off with the improved RB700 bias housing phono cable. |
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| Rega P5 Belt Drive Turntable |
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Description
Rega P5: The P5 is a turntable born from the legacy of the P25. The P5 celebrates over 30 years of Rega precision crafting specialist hi-fi in Britain. And subsequently combines everything that Rega stands for, which is simply, giving you the best product in terms of quality and style at the best possible price!
The P5 utilises idea's and engineering techniques used on our more expensive turntables; the aluminium surround, its complex CNC machined skeletal low mass micro-fibre plinth. Not to mention the new RB700 tonearm found on the P7.
The Glass platter of the P5 is hand crafted from floated plate glass 12mm in thickness. This makes for a superb platter material which provides stability and assists in the isolation of record information against other sounds (i.e. /knocking or vibrations) and also provides excellent speed stability; thus providing increased sonic enjoyment. |
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| Rega P9 Belt Drive Turntable |
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Description
Rega P9: The P9 is, in our opinion, the ultimate performance turntable available to the music-loving public. The P9 was designed with no financial restrictions whatsoever. With the right cartridge, you will be astonished at just how much information this turntable retrieves from your vinyl LP collection.
The plinth is a complex CNC machined skeletal structure encased in highly ridged phenolic resin laminates. The equivalent to the carbon fibre 'monocoque' chassis of the formula one car. The plinth of the new P9 uses a brand new material to hi-fi for the inner skeletal structure. It is an ultra lightweight fibre composite. This results in the plinth being even lighter than the previous Planar 9 and improves the performance.
The main bearing assembly is engineered to extremely tight tolerances. This results in virtually friction free rumble-less performance.
The platter is made from pure ceramic; a material that you would otherwise find on missile nose cones or maybe insulation tiles found on NASA's space shuttle. The reason for using such an exotic and difficult to produce material? It is the hardest material known to man apart from diamond! |
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