I agree with whoever it was who said that unless you are into vintage stuff just for the thrill (and the difficulties), I would stay away from vintage TTs, at least for now. This is in some ways hypocritical of me, as I own 5 of them. But I DID deliberately seek them out for the fun of it. Anyway, if you keep score, you have had more recommendations for the 1200GR than anything else. Why consider a Thorens DD (first one they have ever made so far as I know) when a more obvious choice is the 1200GR? If you are in it for the looks, then pick a TT for looks, or buy a wood surround for your 1200GR.
Newbie turntable Upgrade
So I broke my cardinal rule about not going down the Vinyl Rabbit-hole, now this Alice-in-Wonderland owns a Fluance RT85, 4,count them, FOUR phonostages (Parasound XRM, Darlington Labs, Sutherland , and a Waxwing to feed my dac) Ortofon 2M Blue, and Bronze, and a Denon DL-110 cartridge along with a bunch of decent jazz and classic rock lp's. Now the need to upgrade the turntable has risen. Looking for suggestions that doesn't exceed $2K usd.
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@elliottbnewcombjr TD-403 DD |
lewm is right, go for the Technics, add a wood base on hifishark, there are zero Thorens 403 DD for sale in usa, only 18 total for sale, all in Europe. Which means no one in USA is likely to have seen or serviced one. actually, I’m surprised you or someone following along hasn’t bought the amber colored acrylic slab with the JVC Victor TT101, with Micro-Seiki Arm that Vlad has in Canada. Last Forever: The cutout would fit a TT81 or TT71 if the TT101 became problematic. There are plenty of them, all Quartz Locked. |
here’s one with a scratched dust cover https://www.canuckaudiomart.com/details/650267192-sl1200-50th-anniversary-technics/ and a NOS dust cover prefer black, this says NEW, 1 left https://reverb.com/item/91428756-technics-direct-drive-turntable-system-sl-1200mk7
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