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Fri, Oct 16 2009, 10:24AM
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I have the opportunity to land one of these with an SME series 3 arm a Shure V15.5 cartridge. Anyone had/have one of these and are they any good? What would be a fair price for this?

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Fri, Oct 16 2009, 10:48AM
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Re: Michell Focus 1


Oooooo shiny. It's a good deck and arm, and I'd say between £2-300 depending on condition.

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Fri, Oct 16 2009, 11:38AM
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Re: Michell Focus 1

Thanks John. Hoping to pay much less.

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Fri, Oct 16 2009, 3:34PM
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Re: Michell Focus 1

Focus 1s used to be pretty cheap, but prices are climbing - expect to pay £250-£300 for a mint condition model. Nice deck though.

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Fri, Oct 16 2009, 8:55PM
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Re: Michell Focus 1

Nice deck, I have one with an RB250 and Goldring Eroica.

Expect to pay £150 for a base deck, with a decent arm & cartridge around £250+. With the Michell unipivot arm (used to have one - damn - sold it a few yrs back)around £350...

Sound is good , also have a Thorens TD160/SME 3009 II imp/1022X, and a Michell Syncro/Technoarm/Elite..

I do enjoy vinyl...


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Sat, Oct 17 2009, 1:07AM
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Re: Michell Focus 1

Here's an armless one I think his BIN is a little optimistic but you can make him an offer for the SME 3009 tonearm together with the deck.

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Sat, Oct 17 2009, 9:59AM
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Re: Michell Focus 1

Thanks to all for your valuable input. Still negotiating with the seller via email, so things are going a little bit slow.

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