Shipped to me by an eBay dealer in Germany a couple years ago. EAT used to offer these with several tonearm choices including the hard-to-find Ortofon RS-309D 12” tonearm as seen here. Displayed and used with pride. Now selling to fund home upgrades!European Audio Team is known for some fine turntables and tonearms. However, you don’t see their Forte models for sale very often. This one is the Forte S, which has a pair of belt-drive motors in the same base as the platter. Runs two speeds, 33 or 45 rpm. In the crate it weighs in at 75.5 kg which is 166 pounds shipping weight! The table itself weighs 44 kg. Hard to describe the sound as it has none - it just sends out the signals from disc without adding anything. This is a lifetime piece with no further upgrades necessary! I used the Ortofon RS-309D tonearm with the proper adapter collar it came with, included with sale. The factory specs for this tonearm show a 16mm center shaft diameter (the narrowest part of the collar, look way down in the opening) in case you are considering how or if this Ortofon collar might work to mount your own, different than my Ortofon, tonearm.EAT makes and VANA (their US distributor) can sell you a different adapter collar for use with EAT’s proprietary, and even another for SME (I think) tonearms.“Local Pickup Only” means it is easiest if you come and get it. However, I am willing to assist your shipping plans if that’s not possible for you. This is too heavy to get a normal shipping quote so I won’t know what it will cost to ship to you. It came to me by truck with liftgate service. You can assume all risk of loss or damage in transit and arrange for such a truck freight pickup from my home address in central KY, USA. But it would have to be fully paid for before I would release the crate to any shipper. Again though better yet, drive in and pick it up. Winner to pay a nonrefundable deposit of $500 and then pay the balance in cash or otherwise cleared funds before I let this thing leave my property.

Biete hier meinen sehr schönen und seltenen RS-309D an. Der Arm ist kaum benutzt worden und in einem sehr guten Zustand, nahezu neuwertig. Zudem ist sämtliches Zubehör vorhanden. Erstbesitz, Nichtraucherhaushalt.- Armaufnahme für Tonarmbasis- Montageschrauben - Ortofon Tonarmkabel 5-Pol - RCA- Ortofon Tonarmwaage (unbenutzt)- Headshell HS-4- Gegengewicht- Bohrschablone- Pivot to spindle Schablone, Lineal- OVPDer Arm funktioniert einwandfrei. Der Versand erfolgt vollständig versichert. Da Privatverkauf sind Gewährleistung und Rücknahme grundsätzlich ausgeschlossen. Bei einem defekten Artikel, nehme ich diesen selbstverständlich zurück.