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Whats on your turntable tonight?
Your Saving Grace ... Steve Miller Band.German pressing. 
So many great golden era DD tables out there, what do you recommend for $1000?
Lewm.Pretty sure if you listed your dp80 right now at $1200 it would be sold before you had closed your browser!The only ones around right now are all in Japan and $1000 just for the motor, then need a plinth and arm so honestly at least $1700 I t... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
First up though is .....Raspberries Best , MoFi release. 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Just landed a beautiful score of albums.All German pressings played once only from a guy stationed at NAS Jax here who bought them all while serving in Germany.Played once only because he recorded them all onto reel to reel and then stored them.Ap... 
What just happened to accepting Paypal?? looks like they are trying to drive us away
Audiogon WILL allow sellers to accept other forms of payment besides PayPal ONLY if you become a registered business user here on Audiogon.Then you can state you accept check, cash etc.However as this involves a monthly fee to Audiogon that's pret... 
Quality of phono pre-amp on McIntosh MX 135
I had a c52 Mac preamp.Tbh I was NOT impressed with the phono stage in it at all.Very mellow and not dynamic.I got much better results using a fairly cheap Dynavector p75 mk3 so Pretty sure most half decent phono stages would better it.YMMV 
Whats playing on your system today?
American Fool .... John Cougar Mellencamp.Cassette 
Whats playing on your system today?
Billy Idol S/T.Cassette 
So many great golden era DD tables out there, what do you recommend for $1000?
YogiI had read on audiokarma that the plinth was crappy but could be braced and mass loaded to increase performance substantially.But if rest of it is sub standard as well?I saw both kd550 on eBay but not much info out there on those either. 
Whats playing on your system today?
Larger than Live .... Keel.Cassette 
So many great golden era DD tables out there, what do you recommend for $1000?
YogiAre you saying that in your opinion the DP60L was/is not a serious hifi TT?What did you find toy like about it?AudiogentI already have a SL10 linear tracker in perfect shape in another system. 
Whats playing on your system today?
The Dream of the Blue Turtles ... Sting.Cassette 
Whats playing on your system today?
Welcome Dan.Great album by Samantha Fish there! 
So many great golden era DD tables out there, what do you recommend for $1000?
I do not doubt at al that whatever DD TT I end up buying ( if at all ), it will NOT be the pinnacle of DD TT.But hopefully about as good as it gets at the 1k price break I have self imposed for a complete working unit cw plinth and tonearm.Rules o... 
Chord DAVE, any lesser Chord DAC come close?
Kudos to In_Shore for their attitude towards this thread and staying on topic!Thank you indeed, does not happen as much as it should nowadays and I am guilty of that as well!