Sanyo TP 1030 - Most Fun Turntable I Have

[jamesc760]

I have it paired with an NOS Zenith 824-DE stylus and it is the most fun listening to vinyl in a long time. Yes, I understand that the 1030 isn't highly regarded around here but it's so easy to operate, just throw a record on it, press the Start button and presto. It's so fun to listen to great music.

I have a number of tables and I rotate them every once in a while; however, I am always going back to the 1030 again and again. I think it's highly under-rated.

I lined the inside the plinth with plasticine, about 5 pounds and it seems to have reduced the resonance and added a bit of oomph to the music. Besides the usual lube and deoxit, this 40+ year old table has come back to life.

Does anyone else have a turntable that no one gives a hoot about and yet you love?

 

[bkatbamna]

The Japanese in mass market electronic companies knew how to make good turntables back in the '60s and refined and improved them until about the mid to late '80s.

 

[CrSens]

I have it paired with an NOS Zenith 824-DE stylus and it is the most fun listening to vinyl in a long time. Yes, I understand that the 1030 isn't highly regarded around here but it's so easy to operate, just throw a record on it, press the Start button and presto. It's so fun to listen to great music.

I have a number of tables and I rotate them every once in a while; however, I am always going back to the 1030 again and again. I think it's highly under-rated.

I lined the inside the plinth with plasticine, about 5 pounds and it seems to have reduced the resonance and added a bit of oomph to the music. Besides the usual lube and deoxit, this 40+ year old table has come back to life.

Does anyone else have a turntable that no one gives a hoot about and yet you love?

Sansui FR-D3, plastic plinth, weak DD motor, but very reliable auto stop and somehow sounds good. An example of efficient, for price point engineering, and still high quality from the operational point of view. After detailed micro-vibrational treatment (plinth on special insulators, cartridge vibrationally decoupled from tonearm, modified Ring Mat) it gets very close to P6 in sound quality. As the most Japanese decks from the era can be made to perform with similar tricks, but of course almost nobody here would believe it. Used mostly with Grado M-2+ or XTZ cartridges.