You can easily boost your P3, with a groove tracer and SRM silent base.
Not expensive.
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We must have started around the same time. I bought my first amp, turntable and speakers in 1974, with the proceeds of a summer job, buying a Goldring G101, Metrosound ST40 and some speakers built by a friend’s older brother. It was about 6 or 7 years later that I bought my LP12 which I still use to this day, well the chassis, lid and top plate are unchanged, everything else is much more recent. I do slightly regret selling my 42/110 and Kans that I bought around the time I bought the Linn.
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Sounds like we might have started around the same time. Those were the days for sure. M listening to Live and recorded music started in 1965 though bought my first LP in 1970 along with a $70 all-in-one turntable, power amp and speakers. Music was heard everywhere at the time so my LP collecting amounted to just a dozen or so at the time but continued auditioning audio of interest when I lived in different cities up to 1975 when I settled in Toronto. At that time I started collecting LPs again beginning with a few new ones after which my used LP collection began to to this day. Around the same time I visited the various now vintage shops that led to my learning of the Oracle and the Linn LP12, which led me to learn of Naim and high-end audio. I bought a budget stereo system and a second one some years later. In 2006 began piecing together another system which consisted of the Naim 5i 2, an original 1983 LP12, Stageline and the B&W 602 S2 speakers. Some years later, I upgraded to the XS integrated amp and added the XS Flatcap.
A time later, as many HiFi enthusiasts the upgrade bug set in and thought of the 202/200/Hicap route but adding a second turntable had come to mind, I also had a want list of a few hundred LPs, so the LPs won over. I still have a list of want of 100 or so LPs but this time upgrading to the XS3 has won,
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I thought the same and it piqued my interest as I do own a Dual 505-2, quite a nice Rosewood one on a system in my study. It is surprisingly good considering.
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Thorens perhaps?!
In the day had the 504
I started with a Dual as well at a great price that was part of a budget starter package deal.
My first proper deck was a Dual 505-2, which went into a NAD 3020A amp into Acoustic Research 8LS speakers with Monster speaker cable.
DG…
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Dual becomes duel all too easily unless they have different purposes like mono and stereo. Duels can be fun though.