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how good is an akai ap006 turntable?

Taking out the trash one day I noticed the top to a turntable in the recycle bin. Right away I peeked into the trash dumpster and low and behold there lay an akai ap006 turntable. It is a fairly heavy sucker about 20 to 25 pounds. I plugged it in and it gets up to speed very well. The speed ajust and strobe work. I need to fix the rca input cables which I will switch out for digital audio cable anyway. What I am wondering is does anyone know about these turntables and their quality or lack thereof. I would appreciate any info and thank you in advance
gastondidi
commcat
79 posts
 
It would be interesting to learn how you discovered the Audiogon.com website. How does one go from dumpster-diving to the audio forum on Audiogon.com in one step?? Entering Akai record player, or Akai turntable, in a Google search does not lead to this site so there must be some intervening events that brought you here. Please tell us how you found us. Thanks
bdgregory
1,712 posts
 
I'm not at all familiar with the table, but Akai made some decent analogue tape equipment in their day. You may want to post this over at Vinyl Asylum or Vinyl Engine - there are many more vintage geeks over there. Based on your description I would think it's work salvaging at the very least.

Commcat - I'm not sure is your intention was any more than curiosity, but if you look at the OP's history, this isn't the first time he's been here. I think you'll agree, for someone familiar with this site, this is the first place they would come for a query like this.
satch
329 posts
 
Judging from the specs and reading the comments around the web, it's a decent but not outstanding TT. But the looks are gorgeous IMHO. here's some info:

http://www.thevintageknob.org/THEVAULT1/AP006/AP006.html#
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