Well, f'rinstance, my Dual 1009 was built in Deutschland by (if I recall) Gebrüder Merkel, in the mid-to late '60s ... it was a changer, not a single-play turntable, and probably (in my estimation) the best, or one of the best, ever made. It was for spinning LP records (vinyl, remember? Big ol' black thin things) so the stylus could "read" the analogue waveforms that were moulded into the sides of the long, continuous (you hoped!) groove that ran, spiral fashion, from the outer edge of the LP to the center. It worked pretty damned well, at the height of its development, and there are folks to this day that insist the vinyl records, properly made and played through the proper equipment, are better than digital anything. They may be right, but I can't tell the difference, and it's not worth bucking the trend, anyway.
I'm planning on buying a black box and software to go in between my stereo amp and my pooter, that will convert the analogue waveforms of whatever is playing into some damn file the pooter can work with, and then burning that music to CD.
My Sony turntable will play only one LP, after which one must pick it up and put it away, and then replace it with the next LP you want to hear. It was made considerably after 1980.
