B&O Beogram 3404. I've had it for many years and it still functions very nicely. It was my mainstay turntable for a long time. The dust cover has seemingly warped near one of the hinges though, so it now closes a little bit lopsided but still basically gets the job done. I thought of trying to tinker with it but then read that the hinges on this model are pretty tricky to work with - something about the loaded spring inside, so that squelched that idea. Despite it's continued good performance, I had become increasingly concerned that it's age would finally catch up with it. For a while, I couldn't decide whether I would try to get it fixed when it finally broke (who repairs B&O these days?) or buy a new one. Well, I finally got the urge to buy a new turntable. The result: a Rega RP6, which is English. Amazingly, I initially had some improbable bad luck. Twice I had to take back my new turntables because one channel wasn't coming through in the stereo output. It turned out it was the same type of manufacturer's defect in each one. They tested each of them and gladly replaced them each time. It must have been a bad batch. The third time was the charm though. Once I got a good one though, I knew I had a good quality turntable. The most obvious difference between the Rega and B&O (aside from their looks) : the Rega is totally manual operation while the B&O is fully automatic. It seems turntables these days are manual.
