Inexpensive Good Vintage Turntables?

Linn Basik...I have one with the Akito arm...superb (especially after putting a Jelco arm cable on it). Hard to find but generally can be inexpensive.

Picking up on the comment ‘how vintage’ is a fair point.

The Linn LP12 has been in production for almost 50 years. It has had many iterations I hasten to add - a bit like a Porsche 911 I guess 

The Rega Planers 2 and 3 are much the same.

Even the likes of the SME 20 go back 30 years and are still made now.

classic vintage is clearly those no longer manufactured such as the Goldring Lenco; EMT 950, Thorens TD124

in many ways the era when the most high tech together with market penetration was in the 70’s. Sadly the UK was fixated with the LP12 - we know there are many roads to audio nirvana nowadays but it killed off the chance of superb DD’s that proliferated the rest of the audio world were using from entering the UK market which was an awful shame.

@holmz I haven't had time to figure out how to use the audigon image insert.

I guess I'm not the first.

Thanks for watching this space.

There's a 1229 on USA that looks interesting.

"Just say no to DD."

Wow, as an owner of all types of drives I had to laugh at that moronic statement. There are plenty of vintage DD tables that still perform better than most of the junk sold today. It would take a hell of a good belt drive to match the drive motor in say a JVC QL-A7! About 3 to 4 hundred verses how many thousands? Lot's of thousands to come close to those specs. Just good powerful smooth delivery of music.

Just because your biased doesn't mean your right. Of course you could be British, they were duped to believe that kind of nonsense.

BillWojo