keith wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2023 5:59 pm
keith wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2023 3:10 am
Kendra wrote: ↑Sun Feb 19, 2023 8:05 pm
Please pardon the typo on the file name
The item on the top is a model 5120 turntable.
I use mine regularly, its my number 2 turntable, and I bought it new a million years ago. Its the 'floppy ar,' version.
ETA I used to have the radio tuner too but I gave it away a couple years ago. I have a newer NAD tuner now,
Wait just a darn minute. Those things are all NAD devices. The turntable, at least, was manufactured by Tesla, and they did sell under the Tesla brand in Eastern Europe. But I don't recognize the brand name on these. It could almost be technics, but technics never branded the 5120.
The logo on the turntable is definitely Tesla. But I cannot identify the others. NAD doesn't actually manufacture anything as far as I know, they specify the specs, improve the designs of others, and get other trusted European manufacturers to build the stuff for them. They had (and still have) a recognizable color and design 'language' that is, to this day, still recognizable as NAD.
The same turntable was sold as the NAD 5120, the Tesla NC470, and the Lenco L800. (hmm I wonder if the brand name on the other devices is "Lenco" - the turntable is definitely Tesla - I'll have another look at it).
By the way, the Czech turntable manufacturer, 'Tesla' (not the car company), is today known as 'Pro-Ject' (probably a successor company that bought the factory not just a different name). Today the same factory makes 'E.A.T'. turntables as well as its own Pro-Ject turntables. E.A.T. is a high-end audiophile turntable company started by the same guy that designed the NAD 5120/Tesla NC470/Lenco L800.
ETA: No, I can't see 'Lenco' in the logo smear. I think the photo has been 'shopped' to purposely disguise the manufacturers name. - meh maybe it is Technics.