ELP Laser Turntable & Trickle Down

I really have been thinking about selling mine...frankly, I don't use it much at all now that the new has worn off (had it about two years). I just hesitate in today's economy, even though I don't expect to get full price out of it.

I've used my Technics more than my ELP...for the kind of music I listen to, it's just more transparent. My ELP - and it's been back to Japan to be serviced once - distorts on hot-cut cymbal crashes, vocal sibilants, etc., and the company suggested that that's probably the way the records are cut and the ELP just shows them for what they are (which makes sense to me). However, as somebody who listens to a lot of old pop, rock and R&B, closely-miked things that often are cut pretty loud, in this case the conventional table is clearly the choice. I would suspect that for somebody who was into classical or such it might be revelatory.

I'm curious; what style/genre of music did they use?

I ran my CBS Labs STR130 test record through my ELP and checked it in Sound Forge, which admittedly involved the preamp and the sound card, but doing that it was pretty much flat out to 20k. Within a db or 2 at most.