Originally Posted by
SimonH
I'm pretty sure a LP12 in the 80's was way more than £69.95! My Rega Planar 3 from 1985 (which I still own ) was £250!
I owned a late 70's LP12 with a SME3009 for a bit, but concluded my Thorens TD125 with TP16 tonearm sounded better, but some people say that the TP16 was actually a nicer sounding arm than the SME . The SME was of course heavily promoted by the UK press and a thing of great beauty in my opinion.
Still have the Thorens and the Rega but need to sell one, the Rega was bought for me by father so will probably keep that even though the Thorens sounds much better.