I now have a Technics SL-D202 direct drive, semi automatic turntable! (ebay £140 local pickup)
it is very clean, keeps it speed well and I have put a Goldring 2100 cartridge on it.
This is turntable #3 in the Hi-Fi room, any more might look a bit O.T.T.
I have rigged it up to a Technics SU-7100 amplifier and I am using IMF Super Compact II loudspeakers.
Almost a 1970’s system, not that that was intentional.
(I have an Arcam Alpha 9 c.d. player connected to the Technics amp as well, so hardly 1970’s
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I need to get the turntable on a wall shelf, but I couldn’t resist setting it up.
The room need a bit of reorganising to get the second system to not get in the way of system A.
The idea is to use this system for grading donated records, but I am happy just to play for now.