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My Turntable Collection.....

B&O 8002 with an MMC1 and a Sound-Smith SMMC1.

Dual 1219 with some sort of Grado Gold Series.

My favorite - a Garrard Lab 80 MkII with a Grado Silver-Blue Series.

Then a Garrard Type A strictly for 'kitsch' factor. I fitted it with a Grado DJ cartridge because of the weight of the arm.

The Lab 80 fully functions, cycles automatically and drops records properly ( I know its sacrelige {sp?] but I have 12" singles) It's really hard finding a fully functional Lab 80. I really like the heavy platter and the sound that comes out of it.

1219 is a great unit, touted to be comparable to the better units of current day but I'm sorta indifferent to it.

The B&O works fine but the sound is a bit edgy - probably a combination of the light platter and the cartridge.

Aside from the B&O, these units represent things that I lusted after in my youth but was somehow unattainable. A brand new Lab80 or Dual 1219 was a real big deal.

Thoughts or comments on this? Just rambling really.
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Turntable collections? hmmm.. Never thought about collecting them, although I have nice collection of vintage tuners.

I've owned some TT's in the past, but nothing super exotic.

My latest is an old Systemdek IIX that I restored two years ago. The table still has its original Profile tonearm and I added a nice Sumiko BPS MC cartridge to it.

For the money, a great turntable that on the used market costs the price of about seven new record albums.

If your preamp doesn't have a phono section, add an NAD PP-2 and your set for analogue playback whenever the mood strikes you.

Jim

PS: As much as I have always wanted to have an exotic phono playback system, I have never been able to justify the price. Although some of these pieces of audio art not only sound terrific, but also make great conversation pieces.
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