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First was a wind-up 78 rpm Victrola with steel needles

..at my grandmother's house in London. I got the vinyl craze (or was it the shellac craze?) early.

2. 1957 Family Seabreeze-type mono 4-speed portable with stacking hub for 45s. I eventually managed to appropriate this for my room, already being a listener and record collector at 13.

3. 1963 RCA small suitcase type stereo portable with Garrrard changer and removable speakers to get a stereo spread (first one I bought and owned).

4. 1965 Battery-powered low-fi portable record player for listening away from home, e.g. camping, parties out doors. Also served as a TT setup on the road.

5. 1969 First component stereo - a Phillips amp/turntable/speaker set.

6. 1970 BSR changer mounted in a cardboard box plinth, home built amplifier mounted in a tin box, and cardboard-box mounted speakers, all built by an electronics tech friend for close to $0. Kept me listening while living on a musician's pay.

7. 1974 Yamaha YP-701 Belt Drive, once I got a "real" job with real pay. This went with Yamaha CA-610 II amp and JBL L-16s, my first decent system. Nice. The YP-701 is still running thirty-five years later on my work desk most nights. The JBLs await refoaming.

8. 2003 Used Rega Planar 3/RB 300 arm/ADC XLM MKIII, as I decided to go back to my vinyl collection and make an affordable step up (while getting vinyl off the HT system and assembling a vinyl rig).

Along the way I've also collected several other cheap turntables for various uses-I have about four sitting around, including a decent Fisher direct drive for upstairs.

I'm really ending up where many of you have started, but it's always been fun. I'm sure as a child I got just as much fun out of winding the Victrola and handling 78s as I do now with my current stuff. It was magic...


Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival. W. Edwards Deming (1900 - 1993)


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