A pic is below, I have encountered them in the past. unfortunately unless the design changed wildly in the 90s with a stronger motor, I would not even try and beat match on them, the motors do not have enough torque and run away on the speed control.

They are probably older than Norfolk-Partier! – even the belt drive versions (which I once had) were easier to work with. The headshell is a “standard” Asian design of hi fi turntables from the late 70s onwards. IT may have been delivered with any number of cheap magnetic cartridges for which the stylus may or may not be still produced.

you can get a new cartridge assembly like a stanton for them and fix it in the headshell. quite frankly (unless you can get a better set of decks and some of the technics competitors/replacements like Stanton or Vestax) I would suggest saving your pounds/euros up and going digital. you can at least still use one deck to transfer your existing vinyl on to the computer (only that one will need the new cartridge).

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@norfolk-partier 496486 wrote:

found one 😀
took the whole cartridge bit off and went and talked to the record shops, most were shut, one guy was a prick, [/quote]

Sadly there was a fair few even back in the day, hence why I buy tunes from Juno download nowadays – its done for the bulk of the elitist twats in the industry and made it more accessible to younger DJ’s (or even those rediscovering mixing).

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but one guy opened up when he saw me looking disappointly at the closed sign and was a massive help, told me what one to get where to get it from and the cheapest price! much respect for that guy, and for you guys who helped too, cheers 🙂

Probably a older chap who runs the business almost as much as a hobby or to meet like minded people – he’d probably be about my age :crazy: and might have even kept the stylus / cart identification charts they used to have a few years ago. if he sells records you like (or can get them) make sure you support a place like this, otherwise next time you want help like that he won’t be there because he’s doing network support in a datacentre for Aviva or TSO or in any other faceless corporate office (large or small) as its the only way of getting a living salary once you get slightly oder..