Dual CS 418

Manual belt-drive turntable with a straight tonearm, Ortofon 2M Red cartridge and built-in MM phono stage.

CS 418: the design

The CS 418 opens Dual's range of manual turntables and shares many of its parts: a die-cast aluminium platter, a hardened-steel spindle running in brass, an aluminium tonearm on ball bearings with a damped lift and spring-loaded antiskating.

It carries an Ortofon 2M Red as standard and has a built-in MM phono stage that can be bypassed, so it also connects to an amplifier without a phono input. The three speeds are changed with a selector; the dust cover comes off.

Specifications

• Belt drive with DC motor
• Speeds: 33, 45 and 78 rpm
• Wow and flutter: below ±0.1% (DIN)
• Die-cast aluminium platter, 305 mm, 850 g with its rubber mat
• Straight aluminium tonearm, statically balanced, 221.5 mm effective length, removable headshell
• Tracking force adjustable from 0 to 4 g, for cartridges from 5 to 9 g
• Manual operation
• Factory-fitted cartridge: Ortofon 2M Red
• RCA outputs, for a phono input and, with the switchable built-in MM phono stage, for a line input
• Dimensions with the lid closed: 435 x 367 x 145 mm
• Weight: 5.8 kg
• Finish: black