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Sell Me Your Women, Your Children, Your Vintage Turntable...

Ok I’m trying to understand the appeal of buying something like an old Garrard 301 or an elderly Technics all trussed up in a shiny new plinth, versus something manufactured in the 21st century by people not wearing clogs.

Surely modern gear has to perform better, dollar for dollar? It isn’t like these restored Garrards are exactly cheap, i was looking at one for almost $11k yesterday on Reverb. The internals looked like something out of a Meccano set.
 I ought to be more in tune with the past, I’m almost 60 and wear bell bottoms, but the style of the older TTs just doesn’t do it for me. Now then, my Dr. Feickert Volare had a look that was hardly futuristic, but that’s about as retro as I’d prefer to go.
All that said... I will buy one of these old buggers if it genuinely elevates performance. 
With $10k available for table and arm, on the new or used market, how would you splash the cash?

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millercarbon
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Scanning through most of this it seems to me you are on the right track, your best move will be as good a table/arm as you can swing in Origin Live. A close second would be a SOTA with OL arm.  

Did you sell your Illustrious? Resolution? If not then moving OL arm to a SOTA would be one way to go.
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jasonbourne52
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I bought an older Linn Sondek with a Grace 707 arm + cartridge for less than $1K from an eBay seller in England! I call that a bargain!
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noromance
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versus something manufactured in the 21st century by people not wearing clogs.
Yeah? Good luck finding vinyl recordings as good as those pressed when those classic idlers were king. 
speakermaster
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The vintage pieces are going to be worth more and more the more that people understand just how incredibly good they are and continue to be good it is a sign of the times because people are sick of being disappointed by the new gear.
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asvjerry
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NFS woman in my life, and she'd be pissed at everyone at that juncture.

No children; the ones' I don't know about don't know who or where I might be.....likely a Good Thing for all involved.

Vintage TT's: a near mint Z100 (even the dust cover, NFS), a Teac tangital for playing anything 'old' that strikes fancy but of unknown quality.  A Rabco SL-8 arm that needs TLC, but in no hurry to play with.

I'd rather consider a maglev tangital, and leave compressors behind.

But, I'm just like that...Had old & new stuff, not so much my focus.

OHM, Farm Grrl is easy on the eyes but I'd rather stare at your shop.  See how much I recognise....;)
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