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I'm changing the format a little here. You still get your table for free, but the choice is not restricted to two tables.
The scenario: You're on a desert island, and like the folks on Gilligans Island, you have an amazing amount of stuff for someone who was just going out on a three hour tour.
Including all of your records.
What you don't have is an endless supply of turntables. In fact, all you have is one. And when it breaks, you're done. No more vinyl listening.
So, you have to choose a table based on longevity. Which table do you want that you think is going to give you consistent, reliable performance for the rest of our life? And, if you choose a belt drive, you can only have one spare belt. That's it.
For me, I'm going with my Yamaha GT-2000. It's so overbuilt and no one to the best of my knowledge has ever suggested on any forum that it has a reliability issue.
"Hope is a good thing. Maybe, the best of things. And no good thing ever dies."
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Topic - WTF (Which Turntable Friday) - Curious 10:07:54 11/21/14 (41)
- Without doubt, the Garrard 301 - B.K. 23:12:01 11/23/14 (0)
- Any of my idlers... - Cuernavaca 12:41:44 11/22/14 (0)
- I'd bring a Revolver belt drive... - Waxxy 10:32:24 11/22/14 (0)
- Bring a spare set of electrolytic capacitors,... - Lew 07:07:32 11/22/14 (0)
- Your criteria pretty much eliminates belt drive so... - kuma 21:29:10 11/21/14 (0)
- RE: WTF (Which Turntable Friday) - middleground 19:39:30 11/21/14 (4)
- Most complex of all servo-controlled DD turntables, and... - Lew 07:09:10 11/22/14 (3)
- RE: Most complex of all servo-controlled DD turntables, and... - middleground 08:48:17 11/22/14 (2)
- Don't get me wrong; I love the TT101 - Lew 12:30:20 11/22/14 (0)
- Nothing - Penguin 10:29:55 11/22/14 (0)
- RE: TD124 - user510 17:51:51 11/21/14 (3)
- but but but but... - Penguin 18:40:52 11/21/14 (1)
- RE: ....yeah. and on that island.. - user510 20:23:05 11/21/14 (0)
- Great choice Steve .... - reelsmith. 18:00:17 11/21/14 (0)
- RE: WTF (Which Turntable Friday) - Tre' 16:19:11 11/21/14 (1)
- i guess you can use the elastic - Penguin 18:42:14 11/21/14 (0)
- I'd want something robust with a history of reliabilty ... - reelsmith. 16:05:21 11/21/14 (2)
- My choice too... - blues4ever 20:17:28 11/21/14 (0)
- Same here.......... - vinylkid58 16:37:43 11/21/14 (0)
- RE: No one here has had survival training? - amioutaline? 14:27:08 11/21/14 (1)
- Marooned? - Lakeshore Larry 16:16:11 11/21/14 (0)
- LP12 - geoff 13:16:26 11/21/14 (4)
- RE: LP12 - Blackdog 15:19:58 11/21/14 (2)
- RE: LP12 - geoff 15:48:57 11/21/14 (1)
- I can do all of those things. . . - risabet 22:08:34 11/23/14 (0)
- Mine has played for ... - docw 14:34:03 11/21/14 (0)
- Some old indestructable radio station job (Gates?) nt - Otis1 12:52:20 11/21/14 (0)
- Any high end micro seiki - slapshot 12:17:06 11/21/14 (0)
- Technics SP 10 MK 2 - Penguin 12:05:27 11/21/14 (2)
- RE: Technics SP 10 MK 2 - Vik 16:06:12 11/21/14 (1)
- Build one :) - Penguin 18:35:10 11/21/14 (0)
- My very own DDX1000. - hcman 11:49:26 11/21/14 (0)
- Very easy choice... - cactuscowboy@bresnan.net 11:45:08 11/21/14 (0)
- RE: WTF (Which Turntable Friday) - Lakeshore Larry 11:24:21 11/21/14 (3)
- Yep, reliability doesn't matter when there's nowhere to plug them in! -nt - Bry 12:12:12 11/21/14 (2)
- RE: Yep, reliability doesn't matter when there's nowhere to plug them in! -nt - Lakeshore Larry 12:16:38 11/21/14 (1)
- RE: Yep, reliability doesn't matter when there's nowhere to plug them in! -nt - Bry 12:20:59 11/21/14 (0)
- Lenco L75/76/78 - Munkie_NL 11:14:35 11/21/14 (0)
- Gilligan's Island? - olddude55 11:12:40 11/21/14 (1)
- Judging from the pic I'd say Conical - Devils Advocate 21:57:36 11/21/14 (0)
- RE: WTF (Which Turntable Friday) - 6bq5 10:16:41 11/21/14 (0)