What turntables do you use? Pictures would be nice as well :-)

In about a week and a half will bring 40 years of ownership of my LP12.
I went from an CD early adopter to selling all my CD's a few months after hearing/buying my LP12 in March 1985.

The LP12 single handedly fueled my desire to spend all my meagre pay checks on vinyl by going to the city every Thursday night after work.. I remember visiting Phantom, Red Eye, Waterfront, Zoom, Metropolis, Chelsea's, Virgin, HMV, The Strand, Utopia to name a few.
7000 albums and 40 years later, here we are.

The LP12, Cirkus, Lingo, Naim ARO and Dynavector XV-1S still sounds superb.

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Nice photos & nice record collection. I've quite a few records also. :)
 
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Nice photos & nice record collection. I've quite a few records also. :)
Great to hear! I too was student-poor when I purchased my Linn wannabe - a Systemdek IIX. It was a real splurge at the time and I kept it 30 years, although admittedly it got very little use in the last 20. Today my main rig is 100% vinyl but I limit the number of albums I own to what can fit on my shelves - about 1,200. That means I have to ruthlessly cull the herd on a regular basis. And very few singles and box sets. In doing so, I hope to end up with a collection which is all killer, no filler. I know this will not sit well with some, but it works for me.
 
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Great to hear! I was too student-poor when I purchased my Linn wannabe - a Systemdek IIX. It was a real splurge at the time and I kept it 30 years, although admittedly it got very little use in the last 20. Today my main rig is 100% vinyl but I limit the number of albums I own to what can fit on my shelves - about 1,200. That means I have to ruthlessly cull the herd on a regular basis. And very few singles and box sets. In doing so, I hope to end up with a collection which is all killer, no filler. I know this will not sit well with some, but it works for me.
I have about 8000 LP's & over 1000 CD's. Then there's my tape reels...lol.

I want to increase my records and CD's. I don't buy pre-recorded tapes, I recorded my own.

Right now I'm getting ready to shop for a new apartment to buy. I'll reorganize my music inventory once I have a new home hopefully sometime this year. :)
 
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