If you have ever owned a B&O turntable, was it any good? Or was it trash?

Plus the turntable was a bit too beautiful looking and elegant for diehard audiophiles in its day. The TOTL B&O cartridges that were sold with the tt are certainly NOT lo-fi. I rank my MMC1 as fantastic among ~ 15-20 cartridges I own. It is no accident that a connoisseur like Peter Ledermann chose the B&O  moving iron design style on which to model his entire line of cartridges.

They are excellent.  They have pretty sophisticated engineering that has gone into them.  I would say it would cost a lot of money to buy  one of them today if they were still in production.  The only downside is there are no replacement styluses, or cartridges for them.  I guess Soundsmith does something but thats about it.  if you were smart, you stocked up on them years ago so when a stylus wore out, you had a backup turntable. or turntables. lol  Not sure you could do that now.

yeah. I have been using my B&O beogram TX lately, it sounds awesome! has a MMC2 cartridge.

tzh, Soundsmith make replacement cartridges that plug right in to the Beogram tonearm, last I looked. If not, they can at least repair any B&O cartridge.

The cartridges are excellent MI types - just like Grado! In fact the Sound Smith cartridges are copies of B&O's! At expensive prices!