B and O Turntables

I own an RX-2 and Beogram 4500, used to own a Rega Planar 3. The 4500 with the tangential tracking arm is superior to both IMO, and the Rega was better than the RX-2. If you can, find a nice tangential tracking B&O table, preferably one that uses the MMC series cartridge. You will be quite surprised at how good they sound.

On a business trip to St. Louis I visited a local authorized Tascam repair shop on the premise of buying a 1/2 track BR-20 reel to reel deck. The store also repairs many other brands of audio gear and upon a tour given to me by the owner stumbled upon Beogram 8000 and 8002 tables. I picked up the 8002 with a very good MC-2 cartridge. The owner cleaned it up and fully tested it while I was there and it worked just fine. I should have it by the weekend.

I've been using the 8002 for a couple weeks now. It is dead quiet and with the MMC-2 cartridge sounds very good.

I might have gone a bit overboard but I also just picked up an 8002 in superb condition with a barely used MMC 20CL.

I have to agree anyone looking for a "budget" table that is an overachiever should consider the higher end of the Beogram line.

On another note now I'm curious about their CD players. They use the TDA-1541 chip with 4x synchronous oversampling. Sounds like a good recipe for analog sounding digital. Might be worth a try to find out.

Sorry, that should have been 8000 with a barely used MMC 20CL.