What is best turntable for listening to Rock from the sixties like Led Zeppelin?

I primarily use 3 electric guitars these days (and one lap steel) made with differing woods, pickups, bridges, etc., and the sound and feel of each is completely different. That's why I use them. My amps are tube (except my current bass amp) with and without tube rectification, either push pull and single ended, with differing speakers…and they sound different…each as unique as my acoustic guitars. Note there are actual experts here, and to ignore expertise is a missed opportunity to learn something.

So, Wolf, have you gone to hear David Lindley do his one man shows? He is out and about again. Killer player, great range of stringed instruments. (And, not too loud, which always kills it for me- he used to use a Dumble but I think he just uses the house system for all these oddball instruments). And, he's great fun to talk to- very old Los Angeles, before everybody got so caught up in things. 

IMHO, tables and arms are built for neutrality. Not that all are good at this. Cartridges are to, however, they miss the mark......and some more than others. What they do well, or not so well, may in fact make them suitable as a tone control.

But unless you have unlimited funds and a large space for several tables, I still believe that searching for a table, to use a a specific tone control is not wise for all the reason stated.

No one is saying that equipment can't have qualities suited for what you might consider a flawed album but the solution presented creates more problems then it solves.

Stick with swapping out cartridges or go out and buy an EQ.

I agree with Raymonda and several others who have suggested that a turntable should not be chosen based on its alleged suitability for a specific genre. Regardless of the kind of music it would be used to listen to, it should be chosen to be as uncolored and accurate as possible, within budgetary constraints of course.

That said, if you do want to try to optimize a given turntable/tonearm/cartridge combination so as to make reproduction of 1960s rock sound as pleasing as possible, an approach that I suspect would be more effective and more practical than most would be to install a moving magnet cartridge and experiment with different capacitive loadings. This kit from DB Systems would be helpful in that regard.

Also, while I’m not familiar with the FM Acoustics Linearizer you mentioned having, based on general familiarity with the brand I’d expect that whatever functions it may perform are implemented in a high quality (and expensive) manner. However, if that device doesn’t do the trick for you, and if you are willing to invest a few $thousands in a component that provides exceptionally flexible equalization capabilities, with audible side-effects that nearly all users (including me) report to be somewhere between negligible and none, and that also provides many other functions that may be useful to you, consider purchasing one of the models from DEQX.

Regards,
-- Al

Hey, Wolf, perchance did you play at the Boston Tea Party, Boston, Mass, circa 1969? Or, Fillmore East same time frame? Best, Rob