Friday, March 2, 2012

Ariston






The RD-11 and RD-11S (Superior) were competition for the Linn Sondek, and never quite took off the same way. Also made in Scotland, the worksmanship and machining was first rate. Somehow never quite had the magic that the Linn did. The RD-11E was a cheaper table manufactured for them by a Japanese company- not really sure who, but they should not have called it an RD-11! A completely different table, nowhere near as good. Years later they added several other models to the line, RD-40 which somewhat mimicked the Oracle, RD-50, and their "Q-Deck", which had some commercial sucess in the budget turntable category.

1 comment:

  1. Hello, do you repair Ariston units or know of someone that does?
    Thanks,
    David

    ReplyDelete