THIS
was my turntable in high school. Connected to a buzzy RadioShack preamp and my Pioneer SK-31 boom box. I knew nothing at the time, and my music probably sounded like crap until I got an amp with a Phono input when I moved to the big city in 1988. I got rid of this (I shouldn't have) because the speed control couldn't maintain consistent speed. I didn't know about Deoxit at the time. I replaced that 20 years later because I wanted to listen to my records again. I bought a cheap AT-LP60, realized how horrible it was, bought a NAD C556, which was made by REGA and was basically a Rega P1, and when I got tired of its severe lack of features, upgraded again to a Fluance RT-85. No pics because I still have these.
This was my first amp with a phono input:
And I can't for the life of me remember how or why I don't have it anymore. It must have been stolen. The house that I had this in WAS broken into, but the guys were caught, and my amp by then was the Onkyo TX-82:
This one's power supply blew up in 2020. Maybe it was the pandemic.
And somewhere along the line I picked up one of these Pioneer SA-6700s:
Which is also gone. I don't know why I don't just build a room in the basement to archive my old equipment. I have no vision.
