RESTAURANT


CONCORDE

in Tateyama-City


Sakuma's system as of December 1996


Front End


Cartridge
DENON DL-102 MONO MC cartrige
€50Hz - 10,000Hz
€output impedance 600 ohm
€output voltage 3mV €tracking force 3.5g (Sakuma applies 5g!!)

Arm
GRACE Oil-damped Tonearm
€This Oil-damped Tonearm was made by Shinagawa Musen (Japan) more than twenty years ago.
€This obsolete arm was designed for broadcast use to avoid mistracking and skipping.

Motor
€GARRARD 401 on a hand made wooden base


CD player
A&D CD-79, heavily modified by A&D engineers
DAT player
TEAC R-10 (modified)


SPEAKERS

ALTEC
Driver : 288 + 288 (Ferrit)
Horn : 1005-B
Woofer : 515 (Ferrit)
Enclosure : 828H
Crossover : N1285-8B
Lowther
PM4 alnico with a handmade bass reflex enclosure made of cherry wood.
PM6 alnico alnico with a hand made horn.
PM6 alnico with a beer keg cabinet.
This Audio Vector cabinet has an old PM4 alnico unit working in tandem with a PM2 alnico for reproducing the violin.
TPI PM3 alnico driver. It is optimized for harpsichord music.


Photos and more details

Inside the Concorde
About the Oil-damped Tonearm and the DL102 cartridge
Speakers

Visit to concorde


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