Your turntable history

1. Started in 1982 with a Thorens TD166 MKII with an AKG  cartrige .

2. sold it in 1985 to buy a second hand Heybrooke TT2 with a Linn basik tonearm and a goldring cartridge.

3. changed the tonearm to a Alphason HRS-100 in the mid 1990's. A homerun.

4. Bought a demo Rega P10 in 2024 with a Hana SL. Sold it within 30 days when a friend of mine offered me his Linn LP2 with lingo 3 and Akito 3B. The Linn was better in all respects.

5. Upgraded the Linn since with a Arko tonearm, a Hana Umami Blue and more recently a Lingo 4. Better than all I could expect. What a journey. Now a happy camper.

My first turntable was the Victor 5 phonograph and they say..."you never forget your first"!. ;  )

All interesting.  I'm surprised by the number of former BSR owners, 7 so far.  So they must have been common in inexpensive "starter" systems.  And the count could be higher since a few just identified an all-in-one system with no names.

Investigating a Vintage TT to learn if the mechanical interfaces are optimised seems the road less travelled.

We are talking about the Vinyl Source, where the groove modulus interface is used parts of an assembly of parts, where dimensions belonging to certain parts are low microns.

Microns Matter, heavily used TT's with lots of years of service behind them will most likely be measured with tolerances in 100ths of a mm, not low 1000ths of a mm.