Personal turntable/cartridge evolution


I just ran across the two year old personal speaker evolution and personal amp evolution threads. I am amazed that so far nobody has ever posted the question with respect to turntables/cartridge combinations.

Same deal as the other threads. I will start with my short odyssey through the worl of turntables:

1993 Linn Basik/Akito/K9
1998 Rega Planar 3/RB300/Elys
2000 Rega Planar 3/RB300/Denon DL103
2004 Michell Tecnodec/RB600/Ortofon Kontrapunkt A and Denon DL103R

Enjoy!

Rene
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1978-81 Technics Belt drive and cheap Ortofon cartridge.
1981 or 82 - Rega Planar 3, Grace 727 , Grace F9e or Ruby.
1994-95 - VPI JR with RB300 and Blue Point - then a Grado Sonata
Around 1999-2000 I started playing around with an SP 10 MK II in a 175 pound McCurdy Plinth, Mounted an RB 250 SE - Incogniti wired and Mitchell counter-weight, I then had a massive plinth built for it and ran several different arms - including SME IV , SME Series III and a few others. Then settled on a 3012 MKII - Shure V15 Type III , IV and M97HE.
In 2003 I started on my first L75 Lenco project(with a friend's help)
And now My latest 2 arm Lenco is nearly complete, with an MG-1 air bearing arm And my trusty SME 3012, A Platinum and DL103 on the MG-1 and a variety of Shures for the SME 3012 MKII and its many headshells.
I think this may be my last turntable!!
1970 ELAC Miracord 620 w/ADC cart
ca 1976 Rega Planar 2, Audiocraft AC300C arm, Grace F9L cart
upgrade to F9E cart
ca 1985 Rega Planar 3, RB300, BluePoint Special
2006 Garrard 401, Scheu Tacco, Grace F9E (in progress...)
Here we go:

Some kind of portable player

Some kind of Garrard

Dual 721 - (whatever came with it)

Kenwood KD-500 - Infinity Black Widow: AKG P8ES (which caused the black widow to oscillate), Pickering XSV-3000, Stanton 881s

Thorens TD 126 - SME 3009: Fidelity Research FR-1 Mk III F (this was a truly great combination and I should have held on to it)

SOTA Saphire - Dynavector DV 501: Dynavector .23R (ruby), Denon 103D

Dual CS-5000 - Denon 103D, Stanton 881s

I'm done; maybe one day I'll pick up an HK/Rabco for kicks.
High School- Clarion. First Lp was The Doors!
Pioneer.
Music Hall 5SE. Just sold it.
Lenco/Rega 300/ Denon 103. Love it! Thanks Jean.
Update time!
1970s Original LP12, Grace 707 with a Dyna 10x4
Stopped for years...then read in Stereophile that no system is complete without the analog experience, so jumped back in again.

1987 VPI HW19 Jr, AT PT9 with a Dyna 10x4. Somehow wasn't quite satisfied with this setup, so traded up to
1989 Kuzma Stabi, Stogi Ref with a Dyna Te Kaitora.
2003 Got the Herron VTPH-1mc phono stage - a real gem.
2004 Got the Living Voice Mystic Mat and the Schroeder Model 2 tonearm - another gem.
2005 Switched to the Denon DL103R - cheaper and better, the poor man's Koetsu.
2006 This should be my final TT upgrade, got the Scheu DL No2 (first in the world). Setup with the Schroeder No2 and the Denon cart.

Scheu DL2
Full system

Funny thing is, I tried to start a thread about the Scheu, but it doesn't seem to appear?