Post your turntable setup...can't get enough of those spinners!

An excellent opportunity to own a TD124!

 

Would love it but local pickup only

 

Let me introduce myself: 64 years old male they never sold my vinyl LPs., I have been digging into acoustics , DSP room correction and tubes and vinyl for many years, I am an engineer and really like measurements as a tool to understand what goes on in hifi reproduction. I am happy with my set up and room and are not buying new equipment often, but I to like to try different cartridges and judge them both by listening and measuring.
A major part of my hobby is tweaking my turntables and cartridge set up, I must have about 30 different test records …. None of them are perfect… but I am very happy with the sound I have on vinyl AND digital.

 

You may! Although there is a thread for that.

In this thread you have to show us some of those turntables. Looking forward to the pics

 

My newly restored 1968 Garrard 401 with an Ortofon RMG-309i tonearm and a SPU #1s cartridge. My phonostage is an EL84 Signature RIAA from Abbas Audio.

 

Kenwood PC350



A Japanese TD124

 

The Tariff Table - Rega Planar 3 1984, New Zealand edition:



Historical context

In 1973 the UK entered the European Common Market, triggering an obligation to buy European farm produce. Despite having had plenty of warning this was going to happen, NZ was still highly dependent on the UK as an export market for its farm produce - and it produced little else. In the following years NZ primary production was supported by subsidies and there was a push to diversify into other industries, encouraged in large measure by high tariffs on imported goods.

Incentives to produce locally included tariff breaks for foreign-sourced items that were locally assembled, with more breaks if they had some local content. The govt of the time not having a great deal of imagination, subsidies and tariffs kept rising to the point of unsustainability, until a change of govt in 1984 led to a completely different approach.

My turntable pictured above is a product of those times. While it's essentially a British-made Rega Planar 3, there are some local subtleties. The wood trim around the edges of the plinth was not a feature of the original UK Planar 3s, being applied after arrival in NZ to trigger the local-content discounts both in assembly and materials: the wood is Tawa, a native hardwood. Rimu, which has a sexier grain (would've liked one of those) was also used. Prior to the 1983 advent of the RB300 tonearm, the NZ versions had Linn Basik arms rather than the Acos arms supplied with the UK versions. This also met local-content rules because the different effective lengths meant the mounting hole in the plinth had to be drilled in a different position; this was done and the arms mounted in-country, the plinths being shipped blank.

Shown above with early 80s NZ EPs to maintain the sense of time & place.

Current context

Can you guess?