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Rekkord Audio
Website:https://www.rekkord-audio.com/
Est. year: 2022
Rekkord Audio is a German turntable brand launched in 2021, building belt-drive record players in St. Georgen in the Black Forest. It grew out of the factory that previously produced Dual-branded decks for the European market, and its main focus is reviving the fully automatic turntable, a format that much of the market dropped decades ago. The company points to nearly a century of record-player manufacturing in its home town as the base of its know-how.
Range & what it's known for
The range splits into two families. The automatic models are the F100 P, F110 P, F300 and F400, while the manual decks are the F100, F110, M500 and M600. The F100 opens the range, and the F300 is a fully automatic belt-drive deck with a switch for manual operation, an 8.3-inch low-mass aluminium tonearm with a carbon-reinforced headshell and a pre-mounted Audio-Technica AT91 moving magnet cartridge, playing at 33 1/3 and 45 rpm. Plinths are wooden, made from MDF or HDF in several finishes. Beyond the decks, Rekkord offers record-care accessories, the RCM and RCM Clean record cleaning machines and the Rekkord Brush.
Who owns it and where it's made
Rekkord belongs to Audio Tuning, the Vienna-based group led by Heinz Lichtenegger that also owns Pro-Ject, Musical Fidelity and Tone Factory. The brand was set up through an exclusive partnership with the Alfred Fehrenbacher factory in St. Georgen, a former Dual site whose staff and tooling carry on the automatic-mechanism tradition. Lichtenegger has said the new models take cues from classic Dual designs such as the CS 505 and CS 721 while using less plastic. Assembly is done by hand in Germany, and the maker states that around 99 percent of the parts come from the Black Forest region.
The lineup in this catalog
Turntables. A Rekkord deck costs between roughly EUR 150 and EUR 500.
Who it's for
Rekkord makes a complete, ready-to-play turntable with a fitted cartridge and the convenience of automatic tonearm lift and return, which is helpful for newcomers and for anyone who prefers not to handle the arm. Newcomers usually begin with the F100, while the F300 and F400 bring automatic operation with a better arm. Buyers who prefer to cue records by hand can choose the manual M500 or M600 instead.
Range & what it's known for
The range splits into two families. The automatic models are the F100 P, F110 P, F300 and F400, while the manual decks are the F100, F110, M500 and M600. The F100 opens the range, and the F300 is a fully automatic belt-drive deck with a switch for manual operation, an 8.3-inch low-mass aluminium tonearm with a carbon-reinforced headshell and a pre-mounted Audio-Technica AT91 moving magnet cartridge, playing at 33 1/3 and 45 rpm. Plinths are wooden, made from MDF or HDF in several finishes. Beyond the decks, Rekkord offers record-care accessories, the RCM and RCM Clean record cleaning machines and the Rekkord Brush.
Who owns it and where it's made
Rekkord belongs to Audio Tuning, the Vienna-based group led by Heinz Lichtenegger that also owns Pro-Ject, Musical Fidelity and Tone Factory. The brand was set up through an exclusive partnership with the Alfred Fehrenbacher factory in St. Georgen, a former Dual site whose staff and tooling carry on the automatic-mechanism tradition. Lichtenegger has said the new models take cues from classic Dual designs such as the CS 505 and CS 721 while using less plastic. Assembly is done by hand in Germany, and the maker states that around 99 percent of the parts come from the Black Forest region.
The lineup in this catalog
Turntables. A Rekkord deck costs between roughly EUR 150 and EUR 500.
Who it's for
Rekkord makes a complete, ready-to-play turntable with a fitted cartridge and the convenience of automatic tonearm lift and return, which is helpful for newcomers and for anyone who prefers not to handle the arm. Newcomers usually begin with the F100, while the F300 and F400 bring automatic operation with a better arm. Buyers who prefer to cue records by hand can choose the manual M500 or M600 instead.
