Ran into a SL1210MK2 for about the same price as a new Super OEM on a Dutch second hand market place so went for that. And it was only a 30km drive. It’s quite a battered specimen but the core parts work properly. I did make an appointment with a repair service to take a good look at it. The tone arm connector is worn out and has too much slack, the target light doesn’t work and I’d like to have the RCA cables replaced with better quality ones. And it has some kind of quick start cable that I would like to have removed. And the dust cover is pretty tatty and missing its hinges.

It came with no headshell, the seller offered the original but I declined since I already have an unused original headshell lying around and I was planning on putting a premounted Ortofon 2M Red on it anyway. Got that one in already, together with a nice Tonar Cork ‘n Rubber mat. Also ordered a Rega Fono Mini A2D phono preamp. This model comes with a builtin ADC with a Texas Instruments PCM2900C chipset, so 48kHz/16-bit. This can be very handy for spinning with time coded vinyl, no need to add an extra audio interface to the chain. And yes, already played around with that using Mixxx which works amazingly well.