Hifijones, exactly. I have some very valuable to me records that are almost impossible to find. Accidents aside, no record with any turntable set-up will tolerate so many plays. As I said somewhere else here, I have one Maxell Vertex tape that I played at least 500 times, and dozens more with 200-300 plays on them. The same sound, no bleeding thru or anything. Now, despite using best tape and over $1k interconnect, my tuned and aligned deck cannot fully compete with Nottingham turntable but it is not far and with some recordings very close. One day I will have high end two track reel to reel deck in the system as the main source but I will keep the Nakamichi as well.
Your first component that was "special"
I got into hifi 40 years ago. I had a Pioneer receiver, Kenwood table, various entry level cartridges (ADC, Stanton, Empire) and Studio Design speakers. I wound up buying a Shure V15 Type 3 cartridge. That was the first piece of gear I bought that was way beyond ordinary. I had kept the cartridge until about 2o years ago- I sold it because by then no decent replacement stylus was available. Wish I still had it.
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