Elberon
07-14-2006, 06:36 PM
I thought I'd wait until I had a decent story to tell before posting for the first time on Audiokarma. About a month ago I stopped by an SA in town and saw a Dual 1219 on the shelf for $12.99. I've known Dual to be high quality since playing a lot of Yes, Lou Reed, and Weather Report (among many others) on a friend's Dual in Cincinnati in the mid 70's. Now, I didn't really need another TT but I remembered someone's post in another forum about how he passed on a Dual 1229 and found out later that one was going on ebay for over $400. I bought it even though the cartridge mount (and cartridge obviously) were nowhere to be found on or around the TT. Thinking that the mount (TK-24) would be a fairly easy get, I looked around and found some for sale at on-line shops for as high as $45 plus shipping. I lost in a couple ebay auctions and really wasn't excited about paying upwards of $20-30 dollars plus shipping for the piece. I suspected that I was spending way too much time on this quest so the TT went into the closet for safekeeping until I could find the mount at a reasonable price (or justify the purchase to my wife). I play tennis on Thursday nights and finally had a small lead on my nemesis in this league until a thunderstorm hit and we were rained out last night. I drove home kind of ticked that I got rained out and decided to stop in to the GW on the way home from the courts. I walked in and what did I see? A mint condition Dual 1245 (with TK-24 cartridge mount AND almost new Stanton cartridge) for $7.00. :banana: Hooked it up today and it sounds great. Haven't tried the mount and cartridge in in the 1219 yet. Don't know which TT I'll eventually keep but it seemed like a dose of "Audiokarma" to me. What do you think?