FONS CQ30 with SME3009MKII

by SPRINT76 Thu Apr 09, 2015 9:18 pm

Selling

FONS CQ30 Turntable with SME 3009 MKII tonearm (original SME/Van den hul rca phonos cables)
Excellent condition.
Made in scotland. 3 speed 78,45,33 with pitch control for each speed.
Goldring G820SE mm cartridge
condition 8.5/10

RM2500 nego

0126025556 Fay (can whatspp or sms for image) or email

The features that set FONS turntable aside from the others:

1. The motor is mounted on the sprung chassis along with platter and tonearm. The benefit of this is that the belt alignment is always good, and there is no wow-flutter due to belt motion between the fixed motor and the bouncing platter (A problem for AR/Linn/Thorens types, where the motor is attached to the fixed chassis, and any suspension’s motion would cause a change to the belt tension, and results in an increased wow and flutter).

2. Heavy platter is one piece cast, 1/4" thick plate, 1/2" rim and 3/8" walls on the barrel, about 2.5 kg, has higher moment of inertia (better stability), and no possible distortions originated in the contact surface between the platter and sub platter design typical for Thorens.

3. FONS developed a unique hyper concentric main bearing with concentricity of the order of 0.75 micrometer, which is claimed to be the best in the industry. As a result, the rumble level is -80 db, tens times better than any other turntable in that line.

4. It uses a DC motor, so there is no 60, 30 or 5 Hz rumble associated with an AC motor.

5. FONS was developed to use the SME tonearm from the beginning. That not only made installation of my SME tonearms easy, but also insured proper suspension tuning for the platter-tonearm combo.

6. Not so obvious, but still very important for the proper cancellation of parasitic modulations, is the design of the sprung turntable in which the center of the suspension and the platter bearing were positioned above the sub-platter, and not under it (like in Linn or Thorens).