Thanks to all for your comments /kind words.

My comment about having paid "slightly over the odds" for the deck was, I have to fess-up, more than a little tongue in cheek, as, taking into account its condition and provenance, I had realised that I had secured a bargain. Hi-Fi News and Record Review (HFNRR) covered the SL-Q303 in their Vintage section in January 2018 and were very complementary (https://hifinews.com/content/technics-sl-q303-turntable), although I was not aware of this until after I had purchased the deck.

Actually, I have had a number of what I would consider to be Techie' bargains on ebay, including, most notably and unexpectedly, a boxed SL-150 Mark I that had never been used for £175.00 in late 2014. I matched this with an ADC-LMF-2 and Jeweltone (Nagaoka) JT-322 from the same era. An image of the deck, different to that shown below, was used by HFNRR in their coverage of the SL-150 in the Vintage section of the October 2015 issue.


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