I found a near mint copy of Linda Ronstadt's "Tracks of my Tears." on eBay for £3.99.
I've got it on a Ronstadt album and Smokey Robinson's original record is in the smaller jukebox, but I fancied this for the other one. It arrived today.
So as I've naff-all to do except watch tennis on the TV, I tried it out on my vintage hi-fi.
This is my Philips turntable I bought in 1972. I've looked after it, lubricated it when necessary and replaced the drive belt. It's had different cartridges over the years. Presently it was using a second hand Shure M75 ED, I bought which is of a compatible era.
It's linked to the second-hand Leak 2000 tuner/amp of a similar era I bought over a decade ago to replace a Philips 790 I bought in 1972. I liked it so much I bought a second one! That's in "my office" upstairs. Then to the Goodmans speakers I bought in 1972.
I've also got a Rotel RX 152 as a spare.
However, when I tried out the record I found the right-hand channel wasn't working.
I went through "the usual suspects" and concluded it must be the cartridge.
Fortunately, I had a spare Shure cartridge, the type used in my jukeboxes, so I swopped them over.
Fortunately, the tone arm head shell slides out, it would have been a nightmare to slide on the four little wires on the replacement cartridge if it didn't.
Tried out and it's working perfectly.
Then just had to print off a title card from a pdf. I stopped the printer after a couple of seconds, so I didn't waste a lot of ink.
Then a case of choosing a record to take out. In this case, Blondie's Sunday Girl.
This joined the others "presently out of favour" in a cupboard.
Then, move the others around in the carousel to keep the "alphabetical order by artist's name," positions.
and it was good to go,