Thorens TD 1601 suspended semi-automatic turntable

As a teenager my close friend had a Thorens TD 160 with a SME Series 2 arm. I was jealous. All that I could muster from my meagre pocket money was a Trio KD1033B, and whilst that turntable was well respected in the hi-fi magazines of the day as a starter spinner it could never compete with the Swiss made Thorens, a turntable considered as one of the best in the 70’s. It and its forerunners, notably the TD 150 (1965) and TD 125 (1968) were the company’s first models to have a 3-point spring suspended sub chassis, an idea …