Yamaha YP-211 turntable head-on with the clear dust cover closed, wood-grain plinth, silver platter and tonearm under the lid

Yamaha YP-211 turntable from a front angle, clear dust cover closed over the silver platter on a wood-grain plinth

Yamaha YP-211 turntable from above with the lid raised, ribbed silver platter, tonearm on its rest and a red knob at the rear left

Yamaha

Yamaha YP-211 Belt-Drive Turntable – Made in Japan

Name: Yamaha YP-211 Belt-Drive Turntable – Made in Japan
Brand: Yamaha
SKU: 20428
Price: 445.00 CAD
Availability: InStock

$445.00

A Yamaha YP-211 belt-drive turntable from the late 1970s, made in Japan, fitted with a Shure cartridge, tested on our bench and in very good condition.

✔️ Very good condition — hinged dust cover on good hinges
✔️ Belt drive with auto-return, tested on our bench
✔️ Shure cartridge fitted — made in Japan, late 1970s
✔️ Covered by Radique Warranty
✔️ Includes Perpetual Trade-Back Program eligibility
✔️ Curbside delivery, local collection or freight within Canada

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Description

A Yamaha YP-211 belt-drive turntable from the late 1970s, made in Japan, fitted with a Shure cartridge, tested on our bench and in very good condition.

What it is

The YP-211 is a semi-automatic belt-drive turntable from Yamaha’s Natural Sound era. A 4-pole synchronous motor drives a 300 mm die-cast aluminum platter through a belt, which keeps wow and flutter low, and it plays 33⅓ and 45 rpm.

It is simple to use. You lower the arm onto the record with the oil-damped cueing lever, and at the end of a side the arm lifts and returns to its rest by itself, then the motor switches off.

The tonearm is an S-shaped, statically balanced arm with an inside-force canceller (anti-skating), and it takes cartridges from 5 to 11 g. This one is fitted with a Shure cartridge. Its signal leads have a spade-terminated ground wire, so it connects cleanly to the phono input and ground post on any receiver or amplifier with a standard MM phono stage.

The service it has had

Tested on our bench, including the auto-return.

Condition

Very Good, and free of significant marks. The slim cabinet presents well, and the hinged dust cover sits and holds properly on good hinges.

A Japanese-built Yamaha with a Shure on the arm and auto-return that works as it should, ready for your records.

Yamaha YP-211 Specifications

Type: semi-automatic belt-drive turntable with auto-return and auto shut-off
Motor: 4-pole synchronous
Platter: 300 mm die-cast aluminum
Speeds: 33⅓ and 45 rpm
Wow and flutter: better than 0.08% WRMS
Signal-to-noise ratio: better than 52 dB
Tonearm: S-shaped, static balance, inside-force canceller, oil-damped cueing
Effective length: 215 mm; overhang 15 mm
Cartridge weight range: 5 to 11 g
Cartridge: Shure
Connections: signal leads with spade-terminated ground wire
Dust cover: hinged
Era: late 1970s
Made in Japan
Dimensions: (Width x Height x Depth) 17.1 x 5.9 x 14.2 inches (435 x 150 x 361 mm)

🚚 Curbside Delivery — This Item Ships Differently

We do not ship turntables by courier. Instead we offer personal curbside delivery by our own vehicle, collection in person from us in Kanata, or freight anywhere in Canada. Please contact us before purchasing — use the pink Ask a Question button on this page and include your postal code, and we will come back with pricing and timelines so you can decide before you buy. Full details and coverage area are on our Curbside Delivery page. 👉

⚠️ Important Information for International Buyers

This unit is configured for North American 110/120V power. Buyers outside North America will require a step-down transformer and appropriate plug adapter.

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Backed by Radique Audio’s Bumper-to-Bumper Warranty and our Perpetual Trade-Back Program. When you’re ready to move on, we’ll take it back. That’s the Radique difference.

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$445.00

Additional information

Drive Type	Belt Drive
Operation	Semi-Automatic (Auto-Return)

About brand

Yamaha at Radique

We service Yamaha, too. Bring us your own Yamaha receivers, amplifiers, CD players, cassette decks, speakers and subwoofers for repair, servicing or restoration, with a 90-day warranty on the work. See our Audio Service page

Yamaha began as an organ maker in Hamamatsu, Japan, in 1887. It made gramophones from the 1920s and began hi-fi with the 1954 HiFi Player. We carry Yamaha AV receivers, vintage stereo receivers, CD players, subwoofers and speakers. We've had more than 280 Yamaha listings so far, covering nearly 200 different models. Every used Yamaha here is inspected, tested and serviced as required, then photographed in-house and covered by our Bumper-to-Bumper Warranty and Perpetual Trade-Back Program. Every AV receiver we list is tested input by input on our bench: each HDMI input and output, the analog, optical and coaxial inputs, the subwoofer outputs and the wireless features where it has them. Don't see the model you want? Tell us on First Dibs and we'll email you when one arrives.

Yamaha models we've sold most often: the SW-3 subwoofer, the NX-E270 surrounds, and the RX-V1400, RX-V850 and RX-V800 AV receivers.

The Yamaha hi-fi story

Torakusu Yamaha built his first reed organ in Hamamatsu in 1887 and founded Nippon Gakki in 1897; the company was renamed Yamaha Corporation in 1987. Yamaha calls the 1954 HiFi Player its first audio product, and dates its first Natural Sound (NS) speakers to 1967.

1970s hi-fi. The CA-700 and CA-500 of 1972 were Yamaha's first integrated amplifiers, and the CA-1000 of 1973 could switch its output stage between Class A and Class A/B. The NS-1000 and NS-1000M speakers of 1974 used beryllium dome drivers, and the NS-10M of 1978, sold for home use, became a studio monitor.

CD and surround. The CD-1 of 1982 was Yamaha's first CD player. The DSP-1 of 1986 was a Digital Sound Field Processor, and in 1993 the RX-V870 became the first Yamaha receiver with CINEMA DSP. The RX-V992 of 1997 added built-in Dolby Digital decoding.

AVENTAGE. The AVENTAGE (RX-A) receiver line launched in 2010, above the RX-V range.

Which Yamaha is which?

CA integrated amplifiers (1972 to about 1979): the CA-500, CA-700, CA-1000 and CA-2000, followed by the A-series.

CR receivers (mid-1970s to about 1980): the CR-1000, then the CR-620 to CR-2020 generation of 1977 to 1979.

NS speakers: from the NS-690 and the beryllium NS-1000 to the NS-10M bookshelf speaker, made from 1978 to 2001.

CD players: from the CD-1 of 1982 to the CDX and GT-CD models.

RX-V AV receivers (from at least 1991): such as the RX-V800, RX-V850 and RX-V1400 we sell often. Built-in Dolby Digital arrived in 1997, YPAO room calibration in 2003 and HDMI in the mid-2000s.

RX-A AVENTAGE (from 2010): the step-up AV receivers. The RX-Z models were the flagships until 2007.

Buying used Yamaha: what to check

Formats. On an AV receiver, check what it decodes and connects to: Dolby Digital from 1997, room calibration from 2003, HDMI from the mid-2000s.

HDMI boards. On modern AV receivers, HDMI is usually the first thing to fail. We test every HDMI input and output before listing.

CR receivers. Owners suggest asking whether service bulletins were done on a CR-2020, and expect scratchy controls and burnt-out dial lamps on any unserviced unit.

NS speakers. Check that the tweeters on an NS-10M are original and both work, and inspect the beryllium domes on an NS-1000, since Yamaha stopped making beryllium diaphragms in 1997.

Everything we list is inspected, tested and serviced as required here, and comes with our warranty.