Thanks for the info; other people have told me that it would fetch considerably more than this so I'm not sure. In any case, I'm not able to find any confirmed sale of one to check out the price, even using eBay.
Michell Prisma Table; worth the gamble?
I posted this on the Audio Asylum and I was looking for a bit more feedback.
Just one week ago today I bought a Clearaudio Emotion turntable and am very satisfied with it. But yesterday I was at my local record store and they sometimes buy tables from people who are selling off their entire collection. I noticed a new table in stock and knew right away that this was no ordinary '70s era mid-fi deck.
After enquiring I was told that it was a "Prisma" and the asking price is $300 Canadian. I went and searched online and found that this is in fact an early Michell table, a version of the Transcriptor Hydraulic Reference. From what I saw, it was the mkII version without the black subplatter but also without the glass platter; it appeared to have an arm similar to an SME 3009, though without a closer look I can't be sure.
Would this table be worthy of picking up for a test on my own system, even though I've just bought a new table? Would it be easy (or even fair) to buy it and resell it at a more fitting price, since this dealer obviously doesn't know the significance of what they have?
I tried to get the best of both worlds by encouraging some friends or my father to buy it; that way I wouldn't be ripping off the store just to make a buck, I'd get to hear the table regularly and I wouldn't have 2 tables when I only need 1. Sadly nobody is interested and that just leaves me to ponder if this offer is too good to pass up.
Just one week ago today I bought a Clearaudio Emotion turntable and am very satisfied with it. But yesterday I was at my local record store and they sometimes buy tables from people who are selling off their entire collection. I noticed a new table in stock and knew right away that this was no ordinary '70s era mid-fi deck.
After enquiring I was told that it was a "Prisma" and the asking price is $300 Canadian. I went and searched online and found that this is in fact an early Michell table, a version of the Transcriptor Hydraulic Reference. From what I saw, it was the mkII version without the black subplatter but also without the glass platter; it appeared to have an arm similar to an SME 3009, though without a closer look I can't be sure.
Would this table be worthy of picking up for a test on my own system, even though I've just bought a new table? Would it be easy (or even fair) to buy it and resell it at a more fitting price, since this dealer obviously doesn't know the significance of what they have?
I tried to get the best of both worlds by encouraging some friends or my father to buy it; that way I wouldn't be ripping off the store just to make a buck, I'd get to hear the table regularly and I wouldn't have 2 tables when I only need 1. Sadly nobody is interested and that just leaves me to ponder if this offer is too good to pass up.