How Many Turntables Have You Owned

Lafayette, Technics, Philips, Dual, Rega, Linn.
The Dual and Linn are still here. Wish I still had the Philips 312.  It was a sexy beast!  

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Lafayette
Technics
Philips
Dual
Rega
Linn

Geez, Dual sure did sell a lot of turntables!

My 27 year old Dual 1264 is still going strong in my second system with a fine sounding Goldring MM cart of some sort.

Albert,

Your first table was a Thorens?

That's a pretty good place to start! How old were you?

Ever own a ceramic cartridge and replaceable needle as your main rig?

Back in college days when I used to work at a well known NY based hifi chain, the Thorens were the bomb!

Not crazy at all.

I always coveted the Thorens tables and sold many to friends but couldn't squeeze one myself.

I settled for a Philips 312 at the time which was a fun and decent table at 1/3rd the cost, but not a Thorens.

I had a fairly standard issue 1978 era Technics before that, nothing like your new baby though.

By the way, the Philips 312 was a way cool looking table in its day and had a nice sound as well. I regret selling it years ago and not keeping it around. I still have some cassette recordings around that I made with it back then that remind me what a nice sounding table that beauty really was.

Here are pictures of a Philiops 312 if anyone is interested:

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The old cassette recordings off the old Philips 312 may well sound clearer today 30 years later on my current system, normal tape hiss aside, than the original vinyl did on the original system I had around the 312 at that time.

I determined years later that the Hitachi Class G receiver I used in that old system then was the weak link. It delivered a lot of power out of a small box that fit well inside a dorm room at the time, but distortion levels with the Class G amp left something to be desired.