This is an old Pioneer PL-510A that belonged to a close friend. Sadly, he died a bit over 10 years ago, He was a bit older than I am, and he and his parents were very close family friends from around the time I was born. This was very rough on my Mom and I. I helped get rid of his belongings, and among with a few dozen records, I took this old turntable that wasn't being used for quite a while. I remember when he got it. I restored it not too long ago, and was testing a very old receiver of mine I had just finished restoring. It still works well.

I've been using the same Technics SL-1900 turntable I bought new in 1976. it has needed very little work over all these years, and it's my main turntable on the big home theater/hi-fi system in the living room. I go with what works, and rarely replace something unless it's hopelessly broken, obsolete, or far superseded in specs.