Your turntable history

Thorens TD166, 1986 - 1996 or so. Gave it all up. No regrets.

The first table I bought with my own money was a BIC 980 automatic table/tonearm with a Shure M91ED cartridge.  My next table was an AR EB101 that came with what looked like a Sumiko arm.  That was followed by a Mapenoll table with an air bearing tangential tracking arm and platter floating on air (a nightmare purchase that rarely worked properly).  That was followed by a Well Tempered Record Player which suspended the arm on fishing line that had a round disc stabilizing the arm by being emersed in a very viscous fluid; bugs got into the fluid and ended up at the bottom of the cup holding the fluid (my mini La Brea tar pit).  That was followed by a VPI HW14 Mark IV with a Graham 1.5t tonearm.  My latest table is a Basis Debut with vacuum clamp and outboard power supply and a Vector tonearm. 

1970s Lenko, hand me down from my grandmother

~1996 Project 6.1, nice like that one.

~ 2018 Thorens TD 203 [POS]

~2020 VPI super prime scout with ADS [decent]

~2024 Rega Naia [endgame]

 Specific model #s escape me :

BSR

Dual

Pioneers

Thorens

Denon

Rega

ClearAudio

VPi

ClearAudio

I had so much hope for my Thorens I bought in the 1980’s. There were issues- the arm bearings were of questionable quality and the motor and a replacement motif developed a ticking noise. My current Thorens is superb