Dual 701

This board has Dual Premire t one of, if not THE FIRST platinum-public use a direct drive motor of the tray.
Although the patent in return Thorens and the brand they have rarely used the silent era prcurseur.
The direct drive of the plate has many advantages, rduction mcaniques pices of rotation, maintains low dmarage rapid plateau.
The reproach that audiophiles faiaient and always on the principle of training and noise, radiation and vibration caused by the engine, which spread from the axis of the plate and by the same cell which necessarily affects the hard vinyl.
They are not wrong, but even when it is necessary to take into account the quality of each product and make obviousness a good direct drive Paltin rstituer a little more than respectable audio and probably better than a bad plate driven by a motor banal, a belt with uncertain CHARACTERISTICS (especially over time) and a tone arm mounted on nails as a bearing.
I stupfait to see that the plates and are audiophile dnomination That a low compression plate aglomr a Palteau weighing 1KG maximun is with the cover plate and is satisfied with a rgulation quartz and score some hundreds euros.
To return the Dual 701, manufacture excepionnelle silent, the arm that dplaise silent hill on a gimbal suspension trs very precise, against the weight so as silent dcoupl re trs effective in a system that fairly sophisticated silentbloc.
It automatically with a silent cinmatique mcanique classy mcanique silent because the noise content of a fawn and admirable, even if it can interfere in the time from the oxidation , a micro switch cutting the audio signal until the tip of the cell from touching the disk, this security has often being protected from HP when the user had forgotten to turn down the volume of its intensive- .
The motto of silent Dual Precision Makes difference (the precision is the diffrence) and this is true.
I think this board has really fit into the clan of high-quality audio sound reproduction.
That they do not even hesitate, Dual has manufactured a similar named MODEL CS 601 (I possde) and silent belt drive with the same quality of CHARACTERISTICS the 701.
Serge

I own this board since the age of 19 (I 55) fortunately I've never sold! Now sell it or give it would be like if you tore me out!
Superb record player of great quality, which has seen the vinyl on his plate. I do think it's one of the first model released direct drive, in any case is the first model with dual, while the patent is of technics.
No offense to fans of thorens, rega ... etc. who swears by the belt drive, I have never heard the slightest rumble on my plate! it is equipped with a shure M97HE 4000D1 or worse depending my mood, coupled with either a Marantz 2225L or QUAD 909 lin KOLECTOR and Spendor S8E or Focal Chorus 714V
No need to hide it for me this 701 is a small jewelry I ever part with it! it is in perfect condition.
Only the thickness of the Plexiglas cover speaks volumes about the quality of manufacture. Aluminum plate weighs 2.5 kg alone and provides exceptional stability.
Dual was the largest manufacturer of turntable in the world, and with this model it proves his immense knowledge, even if today there is a production under the same brand, but is this really DUAL?
In hindsight, if this model was still I rushed from a reseller to buy! BRAVO DUAL