Experience with Transcriptor Turntables?

213cobra
Thanks for the fulsome and very informative/helpful info. Your experience with performance seems to mirror mine except that you have a ton more experience with them and the knowledge to go with it. The reason for my inquiry is that I have had a Skeletal since 1976 or before (colleage Max Gottschalk, designer in Tucson, got me into some interesting audio components, including a Saturn before I traded up to the Skeletal) and I am thinking of using it again in a display type setting. That Vestigal arm is tougher than it looks and sounds very good. I think the bearings are still fine, but that web or framework on which the table rests has sagged and I would like to find a replacement - or find a way to straighten and brace it - or duplicate it with other material. Do you know of such solutions. I also will try to get into contact with David Gammon's son as you suggest might be possible. You are a marvelous source - thanks - and likely that I will be back to you.

Stanwal
It indeed is very striking - viewers seem to go nuts about the styling - and I was able to overlook some of the mechanical issues in that it did sound very good at the time. I agree with you - if i did not own this one, would not now buy one for performance. Thanks for your reply.

I loved the turntable since I saw A Clockwork Orange. My brother-in-law had one that I could never get him to sell to me. Over Easter when they came to visit there was a large heavy box on the table and he said it was for me. When I opened the box - there it was in all it's glorious beauty. However, to say the least it needs total restoration. I just received a quote from Michell of 495.00 (pounds) or about 750 usd. (I'm on disability and music is my life). My other turntable is an LP12 and the motor just broke. Does anyone in the U.S. restore the Transcriptor Turntable? I already have someone to fix my LP12.

I bought a Skeleton a few weeks back.... but FED-EX shattered the Plinth... of course the bottom with all the holes.

Now I've paid for a new one from Transcriptors.eu.... and no word for a month.

Any chance you could help a fellow Transcriptor enthusiast and create a sketch of the bottom glass... so we can have the ability of solving mine and future "problems"...

I'm not sure how to make it worth your time... but if taken apart it would be surely appreciated.

Thanks

I bought a Skeleton from a friend back in the 80's. It had been brutalized. Fitted with a Linn arm that weighted about 5 times the vestigial. I sent it to Michael Gammon for reconditioning and just got it back a couple weeks ago. In the process of fine tuning. Swatkins, are you still looking for an answer regarding the bottom glass?

Stanwal, Thanks for the memories. I used to frequent Harmony House back in the early 70s, as a poor student who could not afford to buy anything. Several years later, I bought a Marantz 10B tuner from Russ. And I do recall the Transcriptors in the window. Later, I owned one. The Vestigial tonearm was aptly named, probably one of the weirdest tonearms I have ever seen, but not THE weirdest. Seems like the Dynavector design is a much better implementation of the basic engineering of the Vestigial.