Personal turntable/cartridge evolution

I've rarely had fewer than 2 turntables (currently 4) at any given time, so there's a great deal of overlap and much of the timetable is lost in the mists of five decades, but here goes:

* Silvertone 78 player with steel needles and thorns (circa l945)
* Magnavox floor-stander from record store a friend and I owned in college (late 40s)
* Collaro changer
* Presto transcription turntable with Rek-O-Kut arm
* Scott 710 (worm-drive!) with Grado wooden arm
* Kenwood KD 500 with Infinity Black Widow
* Dual 1229
* One of the first Sota Sapphires with MMT arm
* Thorens TD 160 (can't remember the arm)
* Dual 608 (still own)
* Well Tempered Record Player
* TNT Mark 1 or 2 with JMW l0.5 arm (still own)
* Empire 398 (recent purchase, still own)
* Lenco L78, replinthed, with SME IIIs arm (still own)

I probably missed a few, but that's most of them.I remember a Mayware Formula 4 arm on SOMETHING.

Carts: at least 25 over the years. The current cache includes Shure V15VxMR and Shure M97, Dyna 10x5, various Grados, Stanton 881S, ADC XLM, and a tired AT OC-9.

Geez, that's SICK! Fun, though.

Right around 1978 I bought a Phillips GA 312 (the one with red touch controls). It gave up 4 months ago and I bought a Linn Sondek LP12. I expect another 15-20 years from it, by that time I'll be close to 70 and maybe a Gramaphone will be in order.

Great thread! I started with a Thorens TD125(?) back in the 70's, using a Shure arm and cartridge. I bought a Linn LP12 with Basik arm in the late 70's and have been using that ever since. I forget which cartridge I used originally, but I got a Denon 103 real soon after I got the LP12. I stuck with that (getting the tip replaced a few times) until a few years ago, when I tried a Benz Micro Gold. Last year, I changed the motor to an Origin Live DC motor.

TJ

Dual 5000 (I think)
Kenwood KD-500 with MAyware Formula 4
Kenwood KD-500 with Black Widow
Thorens 160 Super with Shure III
SOTA with Shure III
SOTA with MMT
Rega 25

Dopogue we had a lot of similar stuff

This is a fun thread!!

1976-1979 Dual 504 with various cartridges

1979-1998 Empire 698

1985-2001 Rega P3 with Sumiko Talisman

2001 to present Well Tempered Classic with Benz LO.4