What is best turntable for listening to Rock from the sixties like Led Zeppelin?


The sound quality isn’t great, so rather than something super revealing, something that is very musical, and can also convey the magic. Sort of the Decca cartridge equivalent of turntables. I am guessing less Caliburn and Techdas, more Linn, Roksan, Denon, EMT 927, Rega, even.
tokyojohn

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Thanks for all the suggestions. I was a "belt-drive. floating suspension" guy when I was young, but hearing Zeppelin on a Technics player (could have well been SL1200), Shure cart, McIntosh vintage solid-state pre, Crown amplifier, and JBLs, made me realize something was very right about this (celtic66 is right). If you are lucky to own a few TTs, occasionally listening to a very laid back and lush presentation can also be a lot of fun (so also agree with steve 1979).
Thanks Raymonda. I do have an FM Acoustics linearizer that is for this purpose that I should play around with more.
Thanks bdp24. If I was starting from scratch I would optimize everything for the Decca, although I did get good results on a PT/RB300/Garrot-Decca and Linn Axis/Akito/Decca-Maroon in the past. I would have sub-tables to play my other carts course, but a Decca makes a bigger difference than turntables (so in my experience, Decca on a Linn Axis/Akito was more interesting than Pink PT or Micro Seiki BL91 with RB300/Ikeda tonearms playing more expensive MCs). When I say more interesting, I mean a sound you cannot get from CD (my Chord and CECs).