For sale is a vintage turntable from one of HiFi’s best manufacturers…the NAD 5120

The NAD 5120 combines a semi-automatic, two-speed turntable with a novel tone arm; both are designed to provide superior isolation from external shock and spurious vibrations.

The full-sized aluminium platter is belt-driven at fixed speeds of 33-1/3 or 45 rpm by a low-speed synchronous AC motor. Speed is changed by a knob on the motorboard that shifts the belt to a different pulley diameter. It features a floating sub-chassis design, which means that vibrations from the motor, which is attached to the base, are isolated from the platter.

It features a tubular statically balance tonearm and the counterweight, in addition to being movable along the axis of the arm by a rack-and-pinion mechanism, is free to pivot vertically to some degree against the force of a compressed spring. This Dynamic Vibration Absorber, or DVA, can be tuned by a screw that varies the spring pressure in order to make the counterweight system resonate out of phase with the main arm/cartridge resonance frequency, thus reducing the amplitude of the resonance.

This provides a controllable degree of damping of the arm resonance ( that further reduces its amplitude.

Aside from the speed selector and an antiskating dial on the motorboard, the other control on the NAD 5120 is a combination arm-lift and start/stop switch knob on the front edge of the base. It simultaneously turns on the motor and lowers the tone arm or lifts the arm and shuts off the motor. In addition, at the end of a record side the arm lifts and the motor shuts down automatically.

It's in excellent physical condition with just a few of the usual marks on the dust cover, and most importantly…..it sounds sweet!

It comes with a copy of the user manual, and a brand new Audio Technica cartridge / stylus.

It’s all ready to play….so dust off your vinyl!