Weathers Tonearm Preamp turntable Amazing condition

Description

A piece of audio history! Weathers turntable, preamp, & tonearm, beautiful condition, and it works! Very rare
Weathers turntable baseplate, motor & platter kit was assembled into a solid Alder base with cherry oil stain.
Turntable has four (4) compliant feet, and the turntable base plate is installed with very compliant springs.
There is no dust cover.
This turntable is very much like the original AR table, which uses a synchronous motor, and a very compliant
suspension. However the platter is lightweight stamped aluminum, and the synchronous motor uses a silicone idler
wheel to run the platter. Also, the top baseplate is a rigid plate, but unlike the AR, it is suspended from the
surrounding wood platform.
The tonearm has a working stereo Weathers cartridge, and the preamp is supplied. The preamp was re-worked
with new capacitors and functions as expected.
There are two preamp outputs – MAG for plug into a magnetic cartridge input on an amplifier, and RIAA which can
be plugged into an AUX input on an amplifier. Both outputs function.
Sound quality is acceptable but certainly not 'high'end'. Very much like a high quality ceramic cartridge. Tracking
weight is about 4 grams – some small mints were added to provide the initial tracking force in the video.
This original Weathers tonearm was designed to track at ~ 1gram, a temporary adjustment was done for testing.
Actual tracking force adjustment was performed by the screw at the tonearm rear as shown
in photo.
This is a great addition for a collector, and quite a rare find in this condition.
See the table in operation: https://youtu.be/oWXQZ1MXzrU,
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describe the item accurately.
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