With great gnashing of teeth the British lords of criticism have praised a non-British turntable.
Along with many others, we've often wondered what you had to do to get a good word from the estimable equipment reviewing gentlemen in the British Isles. Now that the Thorens TD160 Super is not only getting superb reviews, but selling there like bangers and eggs, we think we have the formula. We offer it here as a gesture of goodwill to other turntable manufacturers seeking to crack the British Isles: Make the best, and sell it for a lot less.
"No matter what method is used (to test) ...the TD160 Super is revealed as spectacularly rumble free ... the unusually quiet mechanical action produces a unit to suit the perfectionist"- Gramaphone "Wow and flutter was very good (actually this was one of the best results for a quality belt drive motor that we measured)". -Hi-Fi Choice
"The spectrogram was one of the cleanest in the report. -Hi-Fi Choice
“…it emerges as an excellent deck for the scrupulous user." -Gramaphone
Epicure Product, Inc. A parent company of Thorens Corporation of America
(Audio magazine, Dec. 1981 )
Also see:
Thorens TD-160C turntable (Jun. 1973)
Thorens TD 320 Turntable and TP 16 MK III Tonearm (Mar. 1987)
Thorens IsoTrack turntables (ad, Oct. 1977)
Thorens Transcription Turntables (Sept. 1976)
TRANSCRIPTOR turntables and tonearm (May 1974)
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