After a tad more than 2.5 years I just turned on my turntable! Oh, sweet music...
I am using a Tandberg 3002A as preamp/phono. Incidentally, not bad phono section on this thing, MM/MC with different settings for load, capacitance, It's got a dedicated headphone amp which surprisingly has way more than enough juice to carry the K1000.
So for now it is the Rega P25 with a ZYX R100 Fuji, to the Tandberg.Using TTVJ mat. (Blast from the past, anyone else using this mat?) I think the cartridge is going to need a few LPs to wake up from such a long nap. But so far, it's good stuff!
Good thing about climate control storage, everything has come out just as I left it. I was concerned specially about the cartridge.