The Dual 701.
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Some extraordinary test reports about an extraordinary turntable.
Test reports of the Dual 701, in magazines like this one, have been totally unlike those of any other component. Not just because the reports are favorable; none of these magazines wastes anyone's time reviewing run-of-the-mill products; there are too many good ones available.
-----The 701's all-electronic, direct drive, brushless, DC motor has Hall-effect
feedback control and is energized by a regulated power supply.
The reports are different because of two themes that run through them.
One theme acknowledges that the 701's performance is actually superior to the measuring capability of available test instruments. For example, Hirsch-Houck Labs in Stereo Review found the wow level of the 701 "essentially at the residual level of our test record--about 0.03 percent”. So did Popular Electronics.
The Feldman Lab Report in FM Guide stated: "We could detect no flutter whatsoever, and the low readings that we did get for wow were no doubt the result of using a record which was not absolutely concentric”.
Stereo & HiFi Times found "arm friction was lower than my capability to measure reliably”.
The second theme throughout the reports is the unequivocal ranking of the 701 at the pinnacle of perfection in record playback. In the following quotes, note the absence of such familiar qualifiers as "one of the" or "among the”.
Stereo Review: "... technical performance characteristics surpass to a greater or lesser degree those of any other integrated record player we have tested”.
FM Guide: "The Dual 701 is probably the smoothest acting, most rumble-free system we have ever tested”.
Popular Electronics: "In almost every respect, the Dual 701 surpassed just about every other record player-manual or automatic-that we have tested”.
High Fidelity: “..the Dual 701 has placed itself in the select group of products against which we must measure the performance of others!”
And, the highly conservative English publication, HiFi News & Record Review, with typical British understatement commented: "The experience of listening to records of the highest quality on this turntable is not likely to be forgotten ...you will never again be satisfied with anything less perfect”.
If you wish to experience the same caliber of performance as these highly experienced and most critical of all audio experts, you need only visit your nearest United Audio dealer and ask for the quietest turntable ever made. You are in for an extraordinary experience -- with this fully automatic, single-play, electronic, direct-drive turntable. $400, including base and dust cover.
----The 701's unique counterbalance houses two separate anti-resonance
filters which absorb resonant energy in the frequency ranges of the tonearm/cartridge
system and the chassis.
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(Source: Audio magazine, Aug. 1975 )
Also see: Dual turntables (May 1975)
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