--- Dual tonearms allow the most advanced cartridges to track accurately and gently. Gyroscopic gimbal suspension as used in 1229 and 1218 is best known way to balance precision instruments. Stylus pressure, applied around pivot, keeps perfect dynamic balance. Separate anti-skating scales for conical and elliptical styli achieve perfect tracking balance on each wall of the stereo groove.
--- Unlike conventional automatic tonearms, the 1218 and 1229 track records at the original cutting angle. The 1229 parallels single records, moves up to parallel changer stack. The 1218 has similar adjustment in the cartridge housing.
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People who are really serious about their records are the best ones to ask about turntables.
Most people who plan to buy components turn too friend who knows something about high fidelity. If the friend is a reader of this magazine, that's good. If the friend happens to review recordings, that's even better.
Record reviewers select their turntables with great care, because they listen with great care: to such things as the interpretations of the artists; to the recording and microphone techniques; and to the quality of the record surface.
They know that what they hear (or don't hear) often depends on the turntable. Which is why so many of them select Dual. From long experience, they know the many ways a Dual differs from other turntables.
It takes more than features.
The tonearms of the Dual 1229 and 1218 are not only suspended in true, twin-ring gyroscopic gimbals, but each gimbal is hand-assembled and checked with special instruments. This assures that every gimbal will meet Dual's stringent specifications for bearing friction. (Vertically, less than 0.007 gram.)
Only by our maintaining this kind of tolerance can you set tonearm calibrations for stylus pressure and anti-skating with perfect accuracy.
Other Dual features are built with similar precision. The rotor of every motor is dynamically balanced in all planes of motion. Additionally, each motor pulley and drive wheel is examined with special instruments to assure perfect concentricity.
The Dual guarantee.
Despite all their precision, Dual turntables are quite rugged and virtually foolproof. So we're not rash when we include a full year guarantee on both parts and labor.
Dual turntables may seem expensive at first, but not when you consider your present and future investment in records.
And now that you know what the professional listeners know, doesn't it make sense to own what they own?
United Audio Products, Inc., 120 So. Columbus Ave., Mt. Vernon, N.Y. 10553. USA.
Dual 1216 $154 95; Dual 1214 $119.95; Dual 1218, $189.95 Dual
United Audio is exclusive U.S. distributor to Dual.
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