Description
Automatic Convenience with Room to Grow
Press Start and the CS 429 moves the tonearm into position and lowers it onto the record. At the end of the side, the arm returns to its rest and the motor switches off. You can also position the arm manually using the cueing lever, while the automatic mechanism is disengaged from the tonearm and platter during playback.
The aluminium tonearm uses ball bearings, adjustable tracking force and spring-loaded anti-skating. A removable headshell makes cartridge changes more straightforward, while the supplied Ortofon 2M Red moving magnet cartridge features a replaceable elliptical stylus.
The belt-drive motor uses optical speed regulation and rubber isolation mounts. An MDF plinth, damped subchassis and elastomer inserts in the feet help limit unwanted vibration. The switchable built-in phono stage allows connection to a line-level input, or you can bypass it when using an amplifier’s MM phono input or a separate phono stage.
Specifications
- Operation: Fully automatic start, stop and tonearm return; manual cueing available.
- Drive system: Belt drive with optically regulated DC servo motor.
- Speeds: 33⅓, 45 and 78rpm.
- 78rpm playback: Requires a suitable 78rpm stylus or cartridge, available separately.
- Cartridge: Factory-fitted Ortofon 2M Red moving magnet.
- Stylus: Elliptical.
- Recommended tracking force: 1.8g.
- Tonearm: Statically balanced aluminium arm with ball bearings.
- Effective tonearm length: 221.5mm.
- Headshell: Removable.
- Tracking force adjustment: 0–4g.
- Supported cartridge weight: 5–9g.
- Platter: 305mm die-cast aluminium.
- Platter mat: 2.5mm rubber.
- Platter weight including mat: 850g.
- Main bearing: Hardened steel spindle in a brass bush.
- Wow and flutter: Below ±0.08%, DIN weighted.
- Phono stage: Built-in, switchable.
- Outputs: Stereo RCA sockets with selectable phono or line level; earth terminal.
- Dimensions, lid closed: 435 × 145 × 367mm (W × H × D).
- Space required with lid open: 400mm high and 415mm deep.
- Weight: 6.6kg
