Thursday, December 12, 2024

Philips D 5420 Direct Drive Turntable



I found this over a year ago in front of my door, still looking for a working record player to replace my other, found in front of door, but that has a broken belt. Which I sewed together with some stitches! Image that, it works but it's not ideal. 

However, this machine, which is a direct drive, has a hick-up, the disk kind of jumps up every second or so. Besides that it's some special system that has an amplifier inside and I never tried out if that would work for me. End of story tried to sell it for parts or repair, but after 16 weeks no success. At the time I found one for sale on line in mint condition abroad. Probably the model has never been a big success. I decided it will go to recycling. Now that we have the Droppie shop in my neighbourhood it will make me a 20 cents or so. Still better than retrash it.

1 comment:

Le-Chat said...

Brought it today and it must have been close to 30 cents. But I had a set of speakers as well (curb found years ago) and a silly casette tape player with horrible sound (from thrift shop, it was a non saleable) all together 72 cents. Not making me rich but cleaning up with a small reward. Better than retrashing.

Philips D 5420 Direct Drive Turntable

I found this over a year ago in front of my door, still looking for a working record player to replace my other, found in front of door, but...