First: Benjamin ELAC Miracord, Not sure of the model but it had this huge, wide metal tonearm and I think a Shure cartridge. I got it as part of a tube system about 1971. It rumbled like a freight train through the high-efficiency speakers, but the setup was loud so we didn’t mind.
Sold it all to my brother and got a real system about 1975 with an AR Xa table, Finally tired of the totally manual table 10 or 15 years later and told my local dealer I was interested in a trade in. His eyes lit up, and he gave me $95 for it, which as I recall is what I had paid. Got a Yamaha P400 automatic with a Signet cart, and by then there were kids and CDs and at some point it got boxed up and stored along with boxes of vinyl..
By 2014 I retired and we made one of the kid’s bedroom into my music room. I decided to break out the Yamaha, but its gimbal had deteriorated, so along with a new Rogue Sphinx and Magnepan .7s, I got a Project Debut Carbon with the 2M Red cart. It was fine but I always felt it had a little motor noise. I sold it and, after much research, got a Schiit Sol and Grado Opus 3 cart — and they discontinued it a few months later. But it does a good job and I don’t play LPs enough to justify $$$ for a fancy turntable.