Harman Kardon T-40 Turntable / Pickering XSV3000 Cartridge

Here we have a vintage turntable from Harman Kardon. We believe the T40 was produced in Japan during the rears 1983 to 1985 as part of a range of three high-performance turntables. Our example comes in good condition although there are a small number of cosmetic marks and a crack in the platter mat, but these are expected really for a deck that is around forty years old. It will be professionally packaged and comes with our usual three month warranty, which does not cover the included cartridge.
Harman Kardon Said….
The most important job of a high performance turntable is to provide the perfect playback environment for your records and cartridge.
This means spinning the record at one constant, accurate speed. And making sure the cartridge picks up only those vibrations it is supposed to pick up – those coming directly off the disc. Unfortunately, the cartridge alone cannot discriminate between the vibrations generated by the disc and those generated by outside sources such as speakers, tonearm, motor, and even footsteps. So, it is vital to any turntable design that the cartridge be totally isolated from all spurious vibrations – those not coming directly from the disc.
This is where the new line of Harman Kardon turntables achieve unmatched success. We’ve concentrated on improving the areas that directly affect playback accuracy: platter mass, drive system, tonearm design, and suspension. The result is a line of high performance turntables that offer you ascending levels of design and performing excellence.
All Harman Kardon turntables incorporate our own precision belt-drive system. Although there is a trend toward direct drive motors in moderately priced turntables, we have concluded that the belt-drive system is superior.
In a belt-drive system, the belt acts as a vibration damper, filtering out the vibrations caused by the motor itself. These findings are supported by the fact that makers of the industry’s most esoteric and expensive equipment have always been incorporating belt driven systems into their turntables.
We also discovered that the more massive the platter, the better the performance. The concept is simple inertia: mass in motion tends to stay in motion, the greater the mass the greater the tendency. Translated into turntable performance, a platter with a higher mass is less affected by outside forces and more inclined to operate at one constant speed (the speed you set it on). Consequently, when we made our platters, we made them massive.
The high-loss (vibration absorbent) platter mat, made of a special high-density rubber, helps prevent vibration from travelling from platter to disc.
An optically sensed auto-lift tonearm is incorporated, eliminating the return mechanism entirely and further minimizing unwanted tonearm vibration.
The phono cables on the T40 are gold-tipped to provide excellent conductivity and low signal loss.
Specifications:
Type: Auto-Lift
Wow And Flutter: 0.04%
Rumble: – 66 dB
Pitch Range: ± 3%
Effective Mass: 8 g
Overhang: 18 mm
Offset Angle: 25.5°
Tonearm Effective Length: 226 mm
Tracking Error: ± 2°
Phono Capacitance: 160 / 250 / 350
Tracking Force: 0 to 3 g
Dimensions: 440 (W) x 372 (D) x 148 (H) mm
Weight: 6.9 kg