Thorens TD 135

Data

General

• Manufacturer: Thorens
• Model: TD 135
• Type: Record player
• Years of manufacture: 1961 - 1964
• Made in: Switzerland
• Color: Grey, frame optional
• Power consumption:
• Dimensions: 380 x 350 mm (chassis).
• Weight: approx. 5,8 kg
• Original price approx:
  • TD 135 with tonearm: 390 DM
  • With tonearm and system V 15/AM-1: 498 DM

Frame, teak: 52 DM

• • Console with plexiglass cover, teak: 144 DM
  • Built-in equalizer preamplifier for connecting a magnet system to a radio: 98 DM

Connections

• Outputs: 1

Technical data

• Drive: Belt/friction wheel
• Motor: 4-pole reluctance motor (AC)
• Speed: 16 2/3, 33 1/3, 45 & 78 rpm
• Synchronous speed:
• Rumble distance:
• Turntable: Iron/Aluminium, 300 mm, 2.9 kg
• Operating mode: Manual/Motor stop
• Pitch: ± 3
• Tonearm: BTD-12 S

Remarks

• Other models in the same series:
• Thorens TD 111
• Thorens TD 121
• Thorens TD 124
• Thorens TD 124 MK II
• Thorens TD 135
• Thorens TD 184
• Thorens TD 224

Pictures

• Extract from brochure: Thorens TD 135

Reports

• Report from "Hifi-Museum":
  • Hifi turntable for the demanding music lover.
  • Precision drive with high speed constancy
  • Purposeful disengaging device

Steel plate chassis Anti-magnetic turntable

• • Adjustment possibility for the chassis