How Many Turntables Have You Owned

I was in LA at the time and bought it used for the same reason.

I wonder if all you Vestigial guys owned the ADC (was that the name?) high compliance cartridge. That was the must own cartridge with that arm. (so I was lead to believe) My Transcriptor or as I called it the Gold Octopus was so sensitive I had to re adjust the tracking force depending on the sight variations in temperature in my house. I think I might have been setting the force to low. Could it have been 1/4 gram. I can't remember now.
Moved on to the Kenwood 500D, the white table direct drive, Had an infinity Black Widow arm (wish I still had that arm) . Boy those days were fun weren't they. Then came those cassette players. Ouch!!! Then came CD Players. Double Ouch!!!!

I did indeed have an ADC XLM at about the time I owned the Transcriptors/Vestigial, but I don't remember that there was any special association between the two. The XLM was just thought to be a great cartridge in those days. I once bought about ten XLMs in a local discount house, carried them on a plane trip to England, and sold them at about 40% profit to a dealer in London. (The deal had been arranged beforehand.) Just about the only time I've relished the wonders of buy low /sell high. The Black Widow tonearm comes up now and then on the Agon sale site and/or on eBay. Not as rare as the Vestigial, and probably a lot better sounding than the V.

I have absolutely no recollection of what cartridge I had with it. I am pretty sure it was not a Decca.

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In 33 years in this hobby, I've only owned 3 tables.

1. Technics SL-1500 or something like that back in 1976..kept it for 25 years. It was a direct drive machine. I started with a Pickering cartridge back then....then I moved up to the Shure V-15 type III, and outstanding cartridge in its day. Then I moved up to the V-15 type V, an even better cartridge.

2. I then bought my dream machine, an Oracle Delphi Mk1 with a Grado Platinum cartridge. I still have the table and cartridge, such a beautiful machine...a real work of art. It still works perfectly, but technology marches on and it does duty in my rack as eye candy or (audio sculpture). My guests always oooh and ahhh at it.

3. Michell Gyrodec with Sumiko Celebration cartridge is my current table. Great sounding and beautiful to look at.
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