NICE table! Congratulations! :thmbsp:
The only ELAC I found came in a battered plinth, no dustcover and cracked/broken headshell (ironically, neatly cracked across, and when re-glued with superglue, it might even have been improved, as I suspect the thin layer of superglue = constrained layer damping ?! At least I like to tell myself that.
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You are right about the turntable addiction. I was in a high-end shop recently, and when I mentioned my GT-2000, the guy told me he used to work for Yamaha in their showroom here. He immediately laughed and said I shouldn't even THINK of buying any of the fancy, expensive belt drives out today, including the ones he was selling in the showroom we were standing in. He said I'd have to go to "silly money" ($50K and up) to get anything even close sonically, so why was I even looking at TTs?
I told him "for fun!" I don't expect to better the sound of my main TT, but I can still enjoy playing around with other ones, just to learn what they sound like! He laughed and understood and agreed.
Recently I picked up a Garrard Zero 100. Yesterday I bought my second Lenco L75, just because it has the better metal idler wheel, whereas my previous one had the inferior plastic one. I have got rid of some, but still have way more than ten TTs... Why? Because they are addictive! Sometimes I wish I only had two or three, but then when I ask myself which one I want to get rid of, the answer isn't easy...
It would be easy if ALL I cared about was sound quality: I'd keep one (the GT-2000), maybe two or three for back-up (definitely including the PL-L1, and probably the TF-124), and sell the rest. But it's not just that. There is the coolness of some designs, the visual beauty of some, the intricacy and the engineering quality and the fun and pride of restoration, the fun of comparing sonics and mat-swapping and tweaking and...
Aw, heck, you said it already: Turntables are addictive! :yes: