Show us your turntable

Inadequate! Nooo. Nothing wrong with a Techy. Have one myself listed somewhere on this thread. Post #12. There’s very little that I would consider swapping it for and certainly not an LP12.

Hmmmm… Not sure, it’s my missus that’s the house plant Queen! Here’s a closer photo. Some sort of palm. No label I’m afraid and she’s out walking the dog lol!

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The long horn machine sounds like a Balmain. The WAF of some of these early machines was pretty nonexistent, hence the dominance of internal horn machines which folded a small horn into a neat wooden box. However apart from the HMV re-entrant units a decent external horn was always better.

I Don’t use my Columbia very often, 78s are mainly played on my 301 with an AT-Mono3/sp.

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:smiley: No problems Kimbleman. I’ll show that pic to the sister-in-law who’s into plants.

Cheers, Rack.

:+1:t5:

The MBL room at the Munich show was full of plants like that and some of the others in your room. Perhaps they actually work as a room treatment, or listener treatment.

That’s interesting, thank you, I remember in the mid 1950’s my brother and I laid claim to our dads record player. It had a folded horn arrangement in a lovely cabinet and a set of doors which you could use as a volume control. We played all our rock 78’s on it changed the needle each side and gave all the records numbers. We drew numbers out of a hat and that was the record that got played, making sure that we only played each side once in a session as we were terrified of them wearing out! Happy days.
My Edison gets little use but we love the look of it and as mentioned before a great conversation piece…back in the days when we could have people over for dinner of course!
Chris

Not sure of its sonic damping benefits but as a bona-fida house plant killer I can say it’s a tough mother and needs only occasional watering.

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This is the Thorens which I (stupidly) sold a couple of years ago. The arm is a Mayware Formula IV, the cartridge a Grado Prestige, I think. I must have bought the whole thing in the early 80s.
I’m trying to find a photograph of the turntable I had before - one of the original Transcriptors decks, with the funny legs (mid-70s?).
I’m still without a turntable - a Michell, perhaps?

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Think it’s a Chinese Fan Palm
according to the S-I-L.

Aren’t you missing something ?

Indeed… I did try to stick an LP into the CDX2, but the CD tray is too small. A strange oversight on the part of Naim engineers.
Seriously yes, I’m missing something, I have about 600-700 LPS, dating from the late sixties to the mid-eighties. And I can’t make up my mind what to get - a no-nonsense turntable like the Clearaudios or Pro-Jects, or something a bit more glamorous like the Michells.

Start easy…Rega P3 with a Nagaoka MP110 or similar and take it from there…

All those are good turntables (had Rega/Michell and Clearaudio) , do you have budget?

I think most of us started with one version or another of a Rega 3

Thanks for your replies, @anon93526344 and @Ian2001.
In fact I don’t really wish to start again with a basic (albeit good) turntable, and feel the urge to upgrade later.
My first turntable was a brand new Lenco L75, this will tell you how long ago the “journey” started, and I’d like something which I can keep for a while… without having to upgrade. Which is why I was thinking in terms of Clearaudio, Pro-Ject, perhaps a Planar 6 or 8, or a Michell, which is, if I understand correctly, a direct descendant of the Transcriptors/SME 3009 I had a long time ago.
I’ll think about it once this “thing” is over.

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Possibly!

Transcriptors Limited relocated from England to the Republic of Ireland in 1973, and at the same time signed an agreement with Michell Engineering that allowed them to reproduce the Hydraulic license from 1973 to 1977. So if your Transcriptors turntable was bought before 1973 it would have been built by Transcriptors. If bought after 1973 (up to 1977) it would have been built by Michell Engineering.

I had a Hydraulic Reference turntable which I purchased in 73 and which was labelled as ‘Transcriptors Hydraulic Reference turntable built by JA Michell’. It was one of the first built under license by Michell. However, I purchased mine with a Transcriptors 9" Fluid tone arm. I remember seeing the turntable in the film “A Clockwork Orange” and just had to get one. It was certainly one of the best looking pieces of hi-fi kit ever.

I currently have a Michell Orb turntable which I love with a Michell Tecno arm, having had another couple of (non Michell) turntables along the way.

Incidentally, the firm Transcriptors Limited was relaunched (by the son of the original owner) as a relatively small venture in the UK in 2009, selling turntables and also parts for the Hydraulic Reference turntable. I bought a replacement belt and feet from them for my old turntable before finally selling it. Not sure if they are still going strong.

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Thanks, an interesting story. I must try to remember when exactly I bought the Transcriptors - I’m sure it was in the seventies, after 1975. It was a beautiful machine, especially with the Transcriptors arm, which I didn’t get for whatever reason. The arm was an SME 3009, with, I think, a Shure V15 III.
Incidentally, it followed a Pioneer PL12.

He’s missing a turntable. He’s still without one.

Regas are really no-nonsense too; not sure if you dismissed those or not.

I emailed my local dealer to see if he has any Clearaudio decks to audition, but as usual they are slow in responding.


My two turntables.
-Pro-Ject 2Xperience “SuperPack” with Ortofon Quintet Blue, used with Stageline K
-Audio Technica AT-LP5X with Ortofon 2M Blue/ AT-VMN95SE, used with built in phono stage.
Honestly, if you want to try out vinyl or planning a come back to the format. The AT-LP5X is amazing value for money IMHO. Just plug and play :smile:

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