Fisher 502 (circa 1971)
Little is documented about the Fisher 502 beyond the advertising that ran in early-1970s audio magazines. The record shows an automatic turntable that sold new for $129.95. Fisher's own marketing called it "the world's finest automatic turntable."
The ads appeared in High Fidelity (April 1971, p.2) and HiFI-Stereo (April 1971, p.2). They push two features. One is automatic repeat: unlock the center spindle and the record cycles and recycles until stopped, with single records or any record in a stack. The other is a 7.1-pound platter, which the company called "extra-heavy." No other specs show up in the surviving ads - no cartridge, wow/flutter, rumble or tonearm details. No service manual or independent test report for the 502 has turned up in the archive either.
The same campaign also promoted the Fisher 302 as "the finest automatic turntable under" - presumably the under-$100 bracket. That suggests the 502 sat at the top of Fisher's turntable line at the time. Whether Fisher built the 502 in-house or sourced it from an OEM, as many Fisher turntables of the period were, is not recorded in the sources available here.
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