Running joke in the '80s. Not the average audiophile's bill of fare, at least in unmodified form. Certainly some of the most beautiful and eclectic designs of their day. Their cartridges remain to this day some of my favorites. Their tables can only use their cartridges,but universal half inch mounts will allow their cartridges to be used on other tables, sort of a pre-cursor to the later day p-mounts. Contemporary Danish designs, several pieces were on permanent display in the Museum of Modern Art, NYC. Had two 4002s, still have one, not working (go figure). Impossible to get fixed, near impossible to get parts for, this company is just waaayyy too big! If I really hated my friend Joe I would post a phone number for him here and refer all your repairs to him. Famous today for the telephones, TVs and furniture, basically a Danish design firm. Started with the 1200, evolved into the 1700s, 2400s,4000s, up to the budget TX/RXs and finally the 8000/8002 with an eddy current (!) drive system. Equally versed in both linear tracking and radial arm designs, these never failed to wow the general public. I had a lot of fun selling these for both JB and The Sound Cellar, banged on the base while they were playing, slammed the dustcover, and ripped the arm across the record! Almost gave a few people heart attacks, usually at loud volume. The unique MMC design of the cartridge (micro moving cross) had the stylus coming up and blipping over the top of the record groove as opposed to digging in- very unique suspension. Extremely low mass arms and cartridges, double knife edge tonearms like the SME. The cartridges could only be used with low mass arms like the Grace 707 and Infiniti Black Widows. Still use a top of the line MMC-20CL cartridge in an SME arm. One of my favorites.
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