Very interesting post Marco! (apologies for the delay in responding).

I had a similar music centre experiences also, but in my case it was a GEC unit, not a Sanyo !!

Things changed when I turned 16, and my folks gave me some cash, and together with my own meagre funds (from paper-round), I got my first hifi system (NAD 5120 with flat tonearm, NAD9200(OEM ADC XLM variant), a NAD 7125 receiver, and lovely Boston A40 speakers (still miss these).

Must say looking back, that humble setup did do a lot of good things musically speaking, but no way did it give me that "BBC sound".

I am still trying to get my vinyl replay to a level I am happy with, and then I can concentrate on getting new records. At present I have some "spare parts", from a project I was planning but kind of gave up on (SME-IV and Kontrapunt-B cartridge), and of course my SL10 has that lovely EPC310MC.

(Presently the SL1200 is running with the Jelco 750D and a DL301, its very good, but the DL301 does not have a very vivid tonality. That cart is a bit like a cross between a MC and MM sound!)

Another possibility for me is to purchase another decent headshell, and run the Kontra-B on the Jelco, dunno if this would work ???

My path to musical enlightenment, seems to a rather hap-hazard and random one !!!