I love my TD 124, I also have 3 Rek O Kut's and they are all idler. If restored properly they are actually pretty quiet. On the TD I have a slate arm board, it really is dead sonically.
also, if i could throw my two cents in, ive heard alot of idlers over the years and ive always felt that extra bit of noise was what made them sound so good. my 301 im slowly restoring has it but man does it make beautiful music
@@Audiorevue I never took the plunge, the TD-124 which had been restored by a so-called pro out of the US didn't do as good a job as I would have liked. The table was noisy right out of the box. Sold it after a few months of too much fettling under the hood. Friend of mine who had both his TD-124 done by Chris Harban are dead quiet and he swears by them. I would have liked to try a 301 but in the end the restoration work is expensive and there is always rumble so I went a different route. It still is a thing of beauty (the 301) and if I had space I would get one soley for mono recordings, as they were primarly made during the mono era and their bearings were never optimized for low noise. Turntables of that era were never designed to have low vertical vibration, since mono cartridges were not sensitive to it.
