I have had Professional dealings with the McIntosh people and they are absolutely the top shelf pro's you'd think they were. I had a couple of special needs and delivery needed to be sped up, They did that and more, Incredible company
the Ortofon cartridge you are using has still got the brass insert ballast weight fitted, it needs to be removed on this low mass arm, notice that the counterweight is too far forward, that is why the Ortofon has a removable weight
I would have never expected that the record would play changing the angle of the turntable like that what a surprise that was. Very good video very good with setting up the weight on the stylus.
By using a spring to provide the Tracking Force it will allow the Turntable to be completely inverted, and if the record and platter are secure, it will play the record. In the late 60s, or early 70s, Dual did demonstrate that. Some other brands of Turntables, would just use the counterweight to unbalance the Tonearm, providing the Tracking pressure
nice!!! got in 1985 brand new and used for a couple months and stored for 30 years ...a dual 505-cs2 turn table.and just got a 1241 dual turntable mint condition.. ..1978 nice too? nad compoents also ,,stored ,, 30 years...my babies!! tuner 4130 amp 3130 cassette player 6130 and cd player 5301
Thank So Much Sir For This Invaluable Information ☺️. I Have Just Bought A Second Hand Dual CS 503-2 & Repaired & Refurbished It. This Will Definitely Come In Useful When Setting Up 🙏
I noticed that one of the three black screws that holds the chassi, the back one, was missing. Does this affect any of the TT operation or is important only for preparing the TT for transport? It was actually during a transport that that specific screw jumped out and got bented.
Very well explained! I am completely inexperienced in the field of turntables and am expecting my first device in the next few days. The video takes away my fear of damaging the cartridge or my records with poor settings.
Hello to thestereoshop I 've been balancing tonearms since the late 70's but boy I had the hardest time with a Dual 1225 tone arm the tone arm is very lite just like my old Onkyo CP-1055FII but this one was the hardest I ever had I could not balance it I'd tweek the counter weight just slightly it would go down I tweek it up it would go up I could not balance it even I checked on the tone arm to see if there was any play ,no play the I checked to see if the screws that help keep the tone in place where bearings are it was fine could it be the head shell was light ,this turntable was barely used it was in original box the dust cover had very small minor scratches the wood base was pristine the head shell looked new even the conectors for the cartridge looked new ??????? for two days I played with it so I got some very small o rings and found a little space inside og headshell I put in 2 o rings I was desperate never encountered this EVER!!!! so I tried it finally I got the tone arm to balance don't know if this was thr fight remedy but I got tone to balanes even set tracking force to 1.75 grams checked it with scale off my half a gfam played a few albums no problems maybe head shell was too lite?????can't explain I had a another 1225 TT but it balanced perfectly took me 5 seconds to balance but this one almost defeated me but I think I solved it what would you do????? JRo
Thank you so much! I was just contemplating whether I should bring my Dual to service since I've had problem with getting it to turn on at all. I followed this video step by step and it turned started spinning immediately.
Trying to do this setup with my 505, but the vertical bearings seem to stick a bit. I've already tried to resolve it with contact cleaner, but no success. aANyone have any advice?
No one mentions Mile Nestorovic, he designed many McIntosh amplifiers back in the 1960s like the MC-3500, it's his work, he's an audio legend, because of its amplifiers, the way the concert sound was changed...
So I have the exact same turntable. Just bought it! I’m so excited but, I’ve never dealt with vintage before. Can you do a video on how to change the cartridge?
Guess I didn’t need to spend $125 for the tech to come out and reprogram only to have exactly the same thing happen a week later. This time a simple reset fixed it. It was so scummy of them to not simply suggest this when I called.
