Tannoy Micro TM55DD turntable


My niece who is crammed into a small apartment in Manhattan with her husband and two young kids, was gifted one of these TTs.  She knows nothing about audio but wants to be able to play records.  Turns out, these units were made by Micro Seiki and marketed under the Tannoy brand in the US for only one year (ca 1975), and it is impossible to find an owners manual on line.  I am helping her to figure it out via videos she is sending me here in Bethesda, MD. Remarkably, the thing seems to work in that it spins at 33 and 45. The built on strobe light is not working, so we cannot verify exact speed but it is stable and the TT is quiet.  I read in one blurb on line that it contains a built in phono stage, but I am doubting that because I cannot see any volume control or any other of the normal controls for a phono stage, in her photos and videos.  Can anyone help to expand my knowledge of this piece?  If it works, she got a bargain for zero dollars. If it has a phono built in, even better.

lewm

I'm bumping this just once.  If anyone has any knowledge of this turntable, I would appreciate it.  One simple question is does it have a built in phono stage, as someone wrote on the internet?  I see no physical features in photos to support that idea. (I haven't examined it in person, yet.)

 

 

@lewm 

It is a Micro Seiki Solid-5 sometimes called Micro Seiki DD-5E.

There's plenty of info on line - here's a manual

 

 

For more turntable manuals and setup information

 

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MICRO SOLID-5 OPERATING MANUAL. The Solid-5 is supplied to operate from the commercial AC power. The Solid-5 employs a sealed motor.

 

@lewm 

It looks like a nice deck, wasn't cheap new. No phono. Definitely worth restoring - mid century stuff is going through the roof, not with audiophiles, with MCM enthusiasts.

Saw one with a Pickering 3000 somewhere.