Nice turntables. Attached picture is an absolute requirement.

[Emulator II]

Technics SL-1500C

 

[SOULKAT]

My first turntable was a Hitachi HD350 When i was 16 Years old, Then Rega / Moth Turntable at 30 years old Then a Rega Planer P2 at 60 years old brand new this week And a few photos to follow

 

[sergeauckland]

A few more of mine.

My first 'Proper' turntable, Connoisseur BD1/SME3009/V15II

Ariston RD40 (not my photo, mine had Mayware Formula IV arm)

 

[sergeauckland]

Followed by:
Pink Triangle

Goldring GL75 (As bought, before restoration - I still have that one)

 

[Madeintooting]

https://ucarecdn.audiogon.com/bd0a9d6c-d07e-4b5d-993a-f10008c5cd62/-/scale_crop/840x630/center/-/quality/lightest/

Not sure how it performed but for looks alone.

 

[Burning Sounds]

Michell Hydraulic Reference. It's an export model I bought in the US in about 1978.

 

[pjug]

My poor old Thorens has no dust cover so got put in a drawer. This is pretty convenient, just don't walk on my springy floors when I'm playing a record!

 

[Berwhale]

My first, and only turntable was a Dual CS505-2 with an Ortofon cartridge like this...

I bought it from Lasky's in the mid 80's, before they went bust. I'd got into CDs by the time I went to university and didn't take it with me. I don't remember what happened to it after that. I gave my small vinyl collection to my brother (who owned a mk1 CS505 and a nice NAD stack to go with it).

 

[Renato]

Hi,

It's not really a picture, but below is a video of the upgrade I made on a Pioneer PL-12D.

Hope you like it.

This was my second adventure in this type of work, the first was in a Garrard 301....

The next one will be in an SP10 MKII... let's see...

 

[Berlin]

This is my Thorens TD 160. Almost as old as I am...

 

[nobodynoz]

My first turntable... my father bought it in 1969 when I was 17 years old...
I was leaving in Abidjan, Ivory Coast and there were two hifi stores one selling "Technics" and the other one "Bang & Olufsen" (B&O).
This is the BEOGRAM 1000. All my friends had a B&O... We did'nt know that Technics was so good...

My second turntable was also a B&O that "I" bought in France 3 years later... 1972
BEOGRAM 3000

My third turntable I bought it in Toulouse, France in January 7, 1981 for life and it's a MICRO-SEIKI BL-91 and it looks new and works like new.....

I'm not at home during a week, I'll post a picture later.

 

[valrak66]

My favorite deck is a Lenco L75 with a Logic Datum II tonearm :

Other turntable I use is a Technics SL 1700 mk1 with a very interesting cartridge Glanz MFG11R

 

[wrat]

living room table

 

[LinearTracker]

Here are a rendering and a photo of my prototype linear tracker.

 

[Suffolkhifinut]

New member using a Project Xtension 10 turntable / Shelter 301 moving coil cartridge / Primaire R15 preamplifier and toilet roll turntable lid support. Don’t know if the toilet roll has any sonic benedits? Does keep the lid up well! Nice sounding rig although would say the arm needed some fettling.

 

[JayGilb]

Don’t know if the toilet roll has any sonic benedits?

You could start a thread on ASR asking this question and you get would 10 pages of comments arguing over 1 or 2 ply.

 

[Suffolkhifinut]

Started with a basic player in a box type thing, mono. Probably first record was a Bill Cosby LP. Moved up to a record player/8-track/am-fm stereo set from Panasonic for 12th birthday. At 16 bought my own Dual 1219 (with Shure M91 IIRC, used that for a dozen years.

Don't use it much these days, but have used this SL1200mk2 for the last 37 years...View attachment 158584

Had the same turntable for quite a few years and it has played more than its fair share of Little Feat albums. Modded mine and put the transformer and power supply outboard. Using it now in my second system bomb proof build quality and great Japanese engineering. While in sonic terms it can’t live up to my Project Xtension 10, the Technic’s build quality is much better.

 

[Chrispy]

Had the same turntable for quite a few years and it has played more than its fair share of Little Feat albums. Modded mine and put the transformer and power supply outboard. Using it now in my second system bomb proof build quality and great Japanese engineering. While in sonic terms it can’t live up to my Project Xtension 10, the Technic’s build quality is much better.

What's particularly better about an Xtension 10?

 

[Suffolkhifinut]

What's particularly better about an Xtension 10?

Sounds better in every way, partly due to its high mass design? The arm is a pig to set up and the arm wiring is crap, sent the arm away to Audio Origami in Scotland for a rewire. As much as I love the Technics SL1200 Mk. II it really can’t compete sonically with the Xtension 10. As an example whatever cartridge you put in the Technics the differences in the sound are minor. With the
Xtension 10 you can really hear the difference when cartridges are changed.

 

[Chrispy]

Sounds better in every way, partly due to its high mass design? The arm is a pig to set up and the arm wiring is crap, sent the arm away to Audio Origami in Scotland for a rewire. As much as I love the Technics SL1200 Mk. II it really can’t compete sonically with the Xtension 10. As an example whatever cartridge you put in the Technics the differences in the sound are minor. With the
Xtension 10 you can really hear the difference when cartridges are changed.

LOL the only time I change cartridge is when its old or I messed it up....and without a proper comparison I wouldn't trust even my own conclusions. I'm pretty sure the cartridge I have now is my last....unless I get clumsy again.