She wasn't into vinyl and didn't know what to do with it,so its been up in her fathers loft ever since.
He said its been used only a few times and looking at the condition id say hes right.
It has a Mission LC tonearm on it,(shame it wasnt an Excalibur!).
I collected it from walton on thames and apparently the townsend factory is not far away.
It has the original box with tools and bottles of bearing oil and damping fluid.
First job is to put the alphason on it!
well this this morning i put the alphason on the rock and set it up,pushed the on button and sat back to listen.
the bass is very well defined and overall appeared to be as good as my pioneer tt......that is until i added some damping fluid! my god that has transformed it,i didnt hold out much hope using the flud as on the 774 tonearm i had it made the 2m black sound dull but this is a different story here.
there's a comment ive read on the net from someone who said its the closest thing he's heard to a master tape,well i can believe that,it just sounds so real,cymbals for instance are amazingly life like.
i also today phoned townsend audio and spoke to a lady who had worked there a long time and actually remembers the guy mario,she couldn't believe it had been in the loft for 30 yrs and seemed more happy about it than me lol.
i couldn't be happier at the moment,must stop buying now for a while and concentrate on buying vinyl!
i think the pioneer may be going under the bed!
the gloopy mess was the deal breaker for me, 
