Pear Audio Blue Kid Thomas Turntable w/ Cornet 2 Tonearm & External Power Supply

I am offering a Pear Audio Blue Kid Thomas turntable w/ Pear Audio Cornet 2 tonearm for sale.  This unit includes the external Regulated Power Supply, designed by Martin Bastin.  I believe that this is the first time that one of these units has been offered for sale on the used market. This is an amazing turntable.  Reviewers have described its sound as lush, rich, organic and natural.

The Kid Thomas features a 2.5 inch thick platter, a double layer plinth and massive separate motor housing and armboard. The finish is natural wood.

The Kid Thomas is the lowest priced turntable with a Class A rating from Stereophile’s List of Recommended Components.

I used to be a dealer for Pear Audio. If I were still a dealer I would be selling this turntable as a demo unit but since I'm not it's a very low-time used model. This unit has only been played at a couple of audio shows and for a few demos. It’s been packed up for the last two years. The deck and tonearm have less than 400 hours of total play time and is in like new condition. I have very conservatively rated it as 8/10.

Kid Thomas turntable

The late Tom Fletcher was the genius behind Nottingham Analogue. The Kid Thomas turntable is based on Tom Fletcher’s last ideas on turntable construction. Unrestricted from past designs Tom Fletcher designed a new range of turntables and tonearms called Pear Audio Blue. The Kid Thomas turntable and Cornet 2 tonearm do not represent a revolution, but rather the culmination of an evolution in Tom Fletcher’s approach to turntable design.

Several features of Tom Fletcher’s designs from Nottingham Analogue remain. The
Kid Thomas uses the same motor principle and the motor still has to be initially spun by hand. This motor principle drastically reduces the resonance travelling from the motor to the platter and ensures speed accuracy.

The Kid Thomas also features an essential parameter in turntable design: matching materials able to control resonance naturally and that are sonically in phase. Components are selected to work perfectly together, making the whole more than the sum of its parts –
creating a turntable in sonic harmony.  Special attention has been placed on a new bearing development along with a new and improved plinth. An improved motor arrangement and a different platter were implemented along with other improvements to achieve superior organic sound quality. The perfect marriage of materials results in astonishing realism, tonal quality and balance, with a realistic and deep 3D soundstage. You’ll be able to hear astonishing, near-live performances of your favorite musicians.

Cornet 2 tonearm

The Cornet 2 tonearm’s unipivot design uses a new approach to maintain azimuth, along with a special material developed, with viscosity properties that does not flow and does not require “settling time”. A hi-tech carbon fibre tube with fibres along the length and not wrapped around the arm, greatly increasing the strength, resonance control and rigidity of the arm.

Cornet arms also have an unusual new headshell design. Meticulous attention to the material went in to the development, producing a tonearm more sonically in phase. The headshell has no finger lift. These features ensure that the arm is properly balanced and no uncontrolled resonances run around the headshell.

The price as listed does not include a cartridge but the Ortofon Cadenza Black shown in the photos is available.  This cartridge has something less than 400 hours or play time.  Please advise me if you are interested.  The cartridge is not available separately at
this time.

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