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Turntable purchase advice sought

Hey everyone,

Looking for a bit of advice on a possible turntable purchase. There is a Technics 1200 Mark II with many Dave Cawley modifications listed on the other site. I have used a VPI hw19 Mark 4 and a Rega P3 before and I'm now running an NAD c558 but I'm looking for something with a bit more bite to it. My cartridges go between a Hana ML MC and a Clearaudio Maestro V2 Ebony MM. 

I don't mind fussing with turntable setup and in fact love aligning cartridges and setting VTA and all that, but I've heard lots of good news about how durable the Technics is. Any thoughts would be appreciated. And thank you.

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+1 on the SL-1200 mkII

I own 3. 2 from mid late 80.s. 
1 from early 2000’s or late 90’s, I forget. 
 

all 3 still work flawless, never an issue at all, clean lube every couple years of heavily used.

best TT available. Others u break belts, things go wrong, wiring, etc etc

 

 will pass these down to kids soon 1 of them anyway. 
 

can’t go wrong with the 1200mkii 

most reliable TT ever built

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