Thorens TD 295-MK
Almost nothing is documented about the Thorens TD 295-MK outside one substantial period review, and that review calls it the TD 295 MK III. Audio-Express (January 2004, p.60) described a two-speed belt-driven turntable with a low-voltage motor. It came with the TP 42 tonearm already fitted with an Ortofon OMB 10 cartridge, and it could take any cartridge with a standard ½-inch mount. The same review listed the deck at $899 with a two-year warranty. It measured 435 mm wide, 358 mm deep, and 145 mm high with the dust cover closed, and weighed 8.5 kg.
Reviewer Charles Hansen found the TD 295 MK III free of rumble, flutter, and wow. It was also quite insensitive to mechanical shock applied to his equipment-rack shelf - a stability he credited to the elastomer feet and the dense mass of the base (Audio-Express, January 2004, p.62). The OMB 10 handled a 1 kHz tone burst cleanly, with no evidence of response dips or resonance (p.63). The magazine's contents page introduced the deck as a new Swiss turntable (Audio-Express, January 2004, p.6).
Beyond that review the record is thin. No production years, manufacturer literature, or service documentation have yet surfaced for the Archive.
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