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1970's THE DECADE FOR AN UNUSUAL TURNTABLE PLATTER

Posted by STEVE M on

1970's THE DECADE FOR  AN UNUSUAL TURNTABLE PLATTER

The 1970's were the start of the fledgeling hifi industry, with big guns such as SME and Quad dominating the press with cerebral adverts. Idly flicking through a few copies from that period, I was struck by the number of turntables with strange platter shapes, firstly from 1974 there was this jokey innovation from Thorens: - Joking aside, lets start at the lower end of the market, who here remembers the Amstrad TP12 one of SIrAlans first forays into hifi again from  1976:- I remember a contemporary review of this and it came out as quite a good performer even...

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