Personal turntable/cartridge evolution


I just ran across the two year old personal speaker evolution and personal amp evolution threads. I am amazed that so far nobody has ever posted the question with respect to turntables/cartridge combinations.

Same deal as the other threads. I will start with my short odyssey through the worl of turntables:

1993 Linn Basik/Akito/K9
1998 Rega Planar 3/RB300/Elys
2000 Rega Planar 3/RB300/Denon DL103
2004 Michell Tecnodec/RB600/Ortofon Kontrapunkt A and Denon DL103R

Enjoy!

Rene
restock

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Circa 1970 Soundesign "stereo"

Circa 1977 Secretly used Father's Garrard turntable

Circa 1978 Sanyo TP 1020 "Direct Drive"! with Empire cartridge

Circa 1980 Kenwood KD 500 SME III Grado Signature

Circa 1982 Yamaha PX2 Linear tracking turntable Dynavector Ruby and Monster Alpha Genesis cartridge

Circa 1986 Linn LP 12 Grado arm Grado cartridge

Circa 1993 Switched to CD only, and miserable ever since

Circa 2003 Switched to SACD, still miserable

Circa 2006 Experimenting with PC based uncompressed audio

Happier - at least its convenient - but really, still miserable

Circa 2007 Great PC based audio at last? VPI? Michell?

Thanks for listening.
Chadnliz

Yes, I think so -- it was a bronzey colored, supposedly rare tonearm by Grado, manufactured in the early 80's?

It was very nicely constructed, had an S shaped wand and was relatively high mass as I recall.

It was hyped and sold to me by my audio mentor and I took his possibly biased advice primarily based on my respect and enthusiasm for the Grado signature cartridges.

Perhaps I would have liked the tonearm more on a different turntable, but I always worried that it was too heavy for the floating suspension of the LP12 and in summary, that Linn set up was the most tedious, least sexy, least enjoyable turntable I ever had.