Your turntable history


When did you get your first turntable and what’s been your turntable history since then ? 

zavato

@neonknight Your list is a lot more extensive than mine, but here goes:

Micro Seiki SomethingOrOther (it was so long ago now I can’t remember the model #, but it was something cheap since I was a poor teenager at the time)

Rega Planar 3 turntable/RB300 tonearm/Rega Elys cartridge

Linn Sondek LP12 turntable/Valhalla/Ittok LVII tonearm/Linn Asak cartridge

VPI Aries/JMW Memorial 10" tonearm/SDS Power Supply/Benz-Micro LO.4, Transfiguration Spirit phono cartridges

Basis 2500 Signature/Vector 3 tonearm/Zyx Airy 3 cartridge

--- Long gap during which I had no audio system ---

Michell TecnoDec/Michell T8 tonearm/Goldring HX cartridge

1976- BSR  model? Belt drive table w/ADC cartridge 

1977- Kenwood KD1033 with Shure v15 type 3

1983? Onkyo model? With Shure v15 type 3

1985 Thorens TD166 MK 4 with Shure v15 type 5 

1990 Rega planar 3/RB 300 and Linn K9

1996 Linn LP12 Rega RB600 Rega Exact (still own but now Ekos 2, Kandid, Radikal 2)

2025 Thorens TD124 SME 3009 SII unimproved Denon DL103R (bought from the daughter of a former neighbor- he dad was the original owner; he passed away and I bought the table) 

Over the years I bought a few other tables I owned very briefly so I’m not really counting them- Philips GA212; Luxman model ?; AR XA. 
I’ve also owned a number of other cartridges briefly. Actually owned a Linn Troika which despite the love it gets from some, I was not a fan. 
 

 

 

 

Project RPM 5 with BluePoint#2 combo new

VPI Avenger rim with 2 VPI tonearms used

I forgot to mention

 

Marc Morin modified AR XA

Sota Star Sapphire III

Sota Sapphire Gen 1 

Teac TN 300 Magnefloat

VPI 19 III

VPI Prime

BSR MA70 as part a a 3 piece Fisher "compact" system.

Benjamin Miracord 50h

Dual 1019

VPI HW-19 Mark III

VPI TNT HR-X