What's been playing on your turntable and what turntable is it ?

I just got the Sean McGee remaster of The Beatles 1967-1970 "Blue" album. I played it last night on my Technics SL1210 M5G w/fluid damper and AT150Sa cartridge mounted to Yamamoto cherrywood headshell. I’ve also been playing some Russian orchestral music lately--Rimsky-Korsakov, Khachaturian, Mussorgsky, etc.

On jazz and pop I sometimes switch to a Shelter 201 mounted on a Jelco headshell. The Shelter has a gorgeous midrange which caresses lead vocals, saxes, guitars, etc.

When playing the Beatles Mono 2014 reissues (and other mono albums), I use an Audio Technica AT-MONO3/LP HOMC also mounted on a Jelco HS. This combo really brings it home on these mono albums--strong sense of in-room presence, midrange transparency, excellent tonal balance and dynamics, and best of all, a very strong artist-to-listener connection.

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Aah. Thanks for the reminder. I have that one along with Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark.

I will give them both a spin tomorrow on my Technics SL1210M5G w/KAB fluid damper, Oracle Groove Isolator turntable mat, and a stack of isolation layers playing into Marc Voigt’s all-tube handwired PTP Phonomena phono stage and MAGI line stage driving a Perreauwx PMF150 power amp driving a pair of Magneplanar 1.7s augmented by a pair of Mirage MM8 subwoofers.

Not that that would make many of you drool, but this has been a seriously winning combination for me for over three years with no compulsion to change.