Rega Planar 3 has done me (and my son) sterling service for over 20 years. We live literally 2 miles from the Linn factory in Waterfoot ;) and I’ve worked there for a couple of days, met the people who built LP12s.
Rega Planar 3 has done me (and my son) sterling service for over 20 years. We live literally 2 miles from the Linn factory in Waterfoot ;) and I’ve worked there for a couple of days, met the people who built LP12s.
I still have my Linn Sondek with Akito arm - from around 1982
don’t break out the vinyl as often as I should.
Back in the 80's when the Linn Sondek was out it was £69.95 plus arm and arm board. Fitted a lot of SME3009 arms with a Shure V15 cartridge to them.
It was known in the trade as the 'Grim Condek'😁
They sold loads on the back of the hi-fi press swooning over them!Originally Posted by Rod
When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks long into you.........
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.
Been looking for a reasonably priced deck myself recently. Somehow I have ended up with about 60 records and nothing to play them on! Popped in to Richer Sounds earlier today but the ones they had in stock were a bit underwhelming. I don't want Bluetooth or USB, I just want to plug it into my old Marantz amp and listen to some records!
Original price £59 in 1973, https://www.psaudio.com/blogs/copper...table-part-one.
Yes no doubt but I'm fairly sure 1973 isn't in the '80s!
I have a Fluance RT85, and can be had for £4XX from Amazon, usually.
As standard it has an acrylic platter, Ortofon 2M Blue and it reviews very well. Outstanding value IMO.
Trying to remember what year I bought the LP12 - probably around 1982 and if memory serves it was £386 bare, and £426 with the Basik arm and cartridge.
I auditioned it against the Dunlop Systemdek, and while I admit - the dealer may have skewed the test towards Linn - it was and is, a fine turntable.
Bought Meridian 101/103/psu amplification at the time too. Still got it all. Tempted to use the Meridian amps with the TV.
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