Linn Genki, today, £100. It had an intermittent skipping issue. I stripped it, cleaned and lubricated the mech. Gave the lens a light clean and it's been playing without issue for about six hours. Best sounding CD player I've ever brought for that money, in fact I forgot just how good the Genki was.
Yamaha MC-1s cartridge. Beryllium cantilever matches the drivers in my speakers. Sounding glorious right now. My Yamaha system is complete.
Might have to be for sale soon as moving to a smaller house and will probably by a Sonus system because this hifi is just so big according to the better half.
Dark days.
My girlfriend lived in Japan for a little while and still uses the term genki. I had an old Linn promo t-shirt with Genki on it. This could have been a perfect way to show how cultural (kultural?) I was but the t-shirt was long gone and I could only tell tall tales about it.......