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Good turntable? Who made it?
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If you attach a pic with your post, it might help someone here ID it. Make sure the box next to "I want to preview my post and/or attach a file" is checked and you can upload a pic from your computer.

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Hi, and thank you for your reply. I did try to upload a pic last night but my jpg was too big and the smaller pic was a jpe which I couldn't upload. I think I am going to take a different direction with this. I went to my uncles radio station this morning and went up into the dreaded attic where he said the other turntable was. I actually found 2 more turntables in great condition. They were in Technics SL-1200MK2(S) boxes. Unfortunately my uncle has one of those and the other is gone. Ok, the 2 turntables I found are made by Russco. They read "Russco Studio Pro Model B" Does anybody know anything about these turntables. There is a tonearm but no cartridge. Would it be worth using this turntable. I would build a custome enclosure and buy a new tonearm and cartridge. Thank you very much for your time. P.S. if anyone would like pics feel free to e-mail me at manager@mysticmedia.com

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I have also just found out the other turntable I couldn't identify is a Russco Cue Master. So I would like to know if using a Russco Cue Master or a Russco Studio Pro B is worth while. Thank you.

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Is it worth restoring? I guess that will depend on what kind of performance you expect from it, or on what kind of system you might pair it with, and how much money you're willing to put into the project. I have no idea about how these sound, but based on the looks of the Cuemaster in the link below, it might be quite resonant:

http://home.earthlink.net/~russcoinfo/cm.html

Someone here restored one.

The type of motor assembly in this kind of turntable might be noisy compared to a good number of "audiophile approved" turntables today. Perhaps, someone with more experience could pipe in with a more informed opinion. It certainly looks like it'd be fun vintage gear to play with... here's a pic & spec sheet for the Studio Pro B:

http://home.earthlink.net/~russcoinfo/StudioProB.html

http://home.earthlink.net/~russcoinfo/Specs.html

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