Personal turntable/cartridge evolution

I've rarely had fewer than 2 turntables (currently 4) at any given time, so there's a great deal of overlap and much of the timetable is lost in the mists of five decades, but here goes:

* Silvertone 78 player with steel needles and thorns (circa l945)
* Magnavox floor-stander from record store a friend and I owned in college (late 40s)
* Collaro changer
* Presto transcription turntable with Rek-O-Kut arm
* Scott 710 (worm-drive!) with Grado wooden arm
* Kenwood KD 500 with Infinity Black Widow
* Dual 1229
* One of the first Sota Sapphires with MMT arm
* Thorens TD 160 (can't remember the arm)
* Dual 608 (still own)
* Well Tempered Record Player
* TNT Mark 1 or 2 with JMW l0.5 arm (still own)
* Empire 398 (recent purchase, still own)
* Lenco L78, replinthed, with SME IIIs arm (still own)

I probably missed a few, but that's most of them.I remember a Mayware Formula 4 arm on SOMETHING.

Carts: at least 25 over the years. The current cache includes Shure V15VxMR and Shure M97, Dyna 10x5, various Grados, Stanton 881S, ADC XLM, and a tired AT OC-9.

Geez, that's SICK! Fun, though.

I knew I forgot a couple. Before buying the TNT (used), I had a wonderful VPI HW-19, Mk III with an excellent ET-2 arm. The later TNT also came with an ET-2, but this one was a disaster (traced, too late, to a faulty pump and surge tank).

And earlier, sometime in the 60s, I bought my first Empire 298, which I missed so much after selling it that I just acquired another one.

Time I updated mine. Sold the TNT Mk. II with its SDS conditioner/controller. My first re-plinthed Lenco (L78) has been replaced by a two-armed monster Lenco (replinthed L75 by Jean Nantais) with both JMW 10.5 and SME IIIs arms fitted.

The Lencos -- especialy the new one -- totally blew away the TNT/SDS combo.

The JMW arm now has a Decca Super Gold Mk VII cart -- best sound I've ever had.

The SME IIIs arm has three armtubes with vintage Ortofon, Sonus, and ADC cartridges.