Starting with my current turntable and working backwards:
Thorens TD160 Super w/Signet XK50 tonearm
Harmon & Kardon Rabco ST-7 Linear Tracking Turntable
Dual 1229
Magnavox Imperial Console
Steelman Portable
RCA 45 rpm changer
Generic 78 rpm turntable (used steel needles that broke frequently)
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Started out in the 70s with a Pioneer PL-10, then when I got backinto analogue:
Systemdek IIX RB 300
Oracle Delphi 3 RB 300
Linn LP12 (yup RB 300)
Sota Cosmos SME V
TNT V SME V
Still run the last two.
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Denon DP-62L (my "workhorse" turntable - still using)
Cotter B1 with Fidelity Research arm
Win Labs SDC-10, FR-64FX arm, Marovskis MIT-1 cartridge, Cotter custom transformer for MIT-1 (still my top TT, but selling it soon)
B&O TX with MMC-1 (for when I'm lazy) |
07-28-2017 10:56pmI was raised on radio and records. When the CD and digital music came about in the early to mid 80s, I went forward with that and never looked back. I get that the turntable and records can, together, can constitute a musical experience (especially for old guys like me) but don't kid yourself into thinking that analog music reproduction can ever compete with Redbook or better.
quite the blanket statement re: one format vs. the other: obviously this author has never heard any of the Verve label jazz albums from the late 50's or early to mid 60's on a great vinyl rig - as an owner and enthusiast of both formats, I can unequivocally say that while Redbook can and often does sound dynamic and musically satisfying, the 'golden age' of vinyl not only competes but creates, in my opinion, a more realistic and enjoyable experience than any digital ever has - it produces all the dynamics, frequency extremes, and realism of digital, but with an added dose of 'you are there' that digital doesn't create really good, clean vinyl on a good playback system is difficult to copy, let alone 'better' - truly good vinyl can be 'jaw droppingly good' tough to make such absolute statements in this hobby, again IMHO, and I'm not kidding! when the digital craze hit in the mid 80's I'm glad I scoured the used vinyl bins (and still do)
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Dual 1218 Onkyo or Yamaha (or something along those lines) Sonographe Sota Sapphire (great deck!) Nottingham Spacedeck/Spacearm (since 2004 or so) |
