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― US EEL (u s steel), Friday, 11 December 2009 22:15 (fourteen years ago) link
if one was going to "cobble together a great sounding stereo on craigslist for less than you'd spend on one of those things", what would you guys recommend? And exactly how much $$$ are we talking about?
― Chillwave Is an Ill Wave (askance johnson), Friday, 11 December 2009 22:24 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't know about Craigslist, I personally don't trust the lack of formality of it, I would prefer to use garage sales or used places. I bought some of my components on Ebay but even a complete "retro" stereo can cost you five hundred bucks. I decided against buying anything TOO old sight unseen as you could pay a couple hundred dollars on something and have it fall apart in a year or you have to buy new parts for it.
Then again if you use Craigslist you could probably go to the seller's house and have them demonstrate the product for you.
― US EEL (u s steel), Friday, 11 December 2009 22:28 (fourteen years ago) link
here is what i cobbled together
turntable -- free from parents' friends who don't use it anymore...pretty nice technicsreceiver -- h/k 330c on CL for $65speakers -- boston acoustic jobs that sound really, really, really good. $150
i've got an airtunes setup that pipes my mp3s to the receiver, so that's all i need. basically, ~$200 for a very nice sounding stereo. what i didn't pay for the turntable i made up for by splashing out for the speakers.
― being being kiss-ass fake nice (gbx), Friday, 11 December 2009 22:31 (fourteen years ago) link
gbx did great!! yeah that's exactly what i'm talking about...i got a really nice old NAD CD player for $25 on craigslist once
in fact, if you lived in mpls i could cut you a deal a totally good technics receiver w/phono ins and some old JBL speakers that are pretty decent.
― eight woofers in the trunk sb'n down the block (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 11 December 2009 23:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Honestly the Crosley sounds fine in my mom's apartment, she has one of the more expensive models (over $200 with CD player) it is very dorm-room sounding, but I know we are music buffs here.
― US EEL (u s steel), Friday, 11 December 2009 23:17 (fourteen years ago) link
ayo M@tt i know at least two ppl that are in the market
― being being kiss-ass fake nice (gbx), Friday, 11 December 2009 23:37 (fourteen years ago) link
ie - that have seen my DOPE HIFI and were surprised to learn that I got it all for so cheap. and are realizing that there's loads of great old music on vinyl that can be had for cheap, etc.
so basically i've got two med school pals that are trying to ape my style (receiver, phono, speakers, computer input) and are shopping. med students be shoppin
― being being kiss-ass fake nice (gbx), Friday, 11 December 2009 23:38 (fourteen years ago) link
gbx if that's a 80s/90s pretty normalish but nice technics and you need a new needle, a grado black will really improve the sound a lot for about $60
http://www.needledoctor.com/Grado-Black-1-Prestige-Series-Phono-Cartridges_2?sc=2&category=374
had one on mine til i got the rega and i loved it.
― eight woofers in the trunk sb'n down the block (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 11 December 2009 23:44 (fourteen years ago) link
(also if you go to the needle dr. dudes will throw it on for you for free)
Your vinyl needs the best if you are converting to mp3, I learned this the hard way. Have to re-do a lot of my vinyl.
― US EEL (u s steel), Friday, 11 December 2009 23:45 (fourteen years ago) link
oooh new cartridge might not be a bad idea. i spend all day like 300 yards from the needle doc
― being being kiss-ass fake nice (gbx), Friday, 11 December 2009 23:52 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah that grado black is a great "budget" (lol audiophile pricing) cartridge and should go well with any basic techniques arm, or maybe an ortofon om-5, but the dudes that work at needle doctor have been real princes to me in terms of giving good advice on stuff
― eight woofers in the trunk sb'n down the block (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 11 December 2009 23:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Any recommendations for a decent portable turntable? I used to have a Vestax Handy Trax and sold it, but my wife misses it and it's good for the porch on summer nights. Thinking about buying another one of those, but am wondering what else is out there.
― Kornblud (admrl), Thursday, 24 April 2014 12:50 (ten years ago) link
oh good timing. my niece wants one for her birthday. she's gonna be sixteen. looking to spend ~$100 or a little more form something "nice" with auto-return. hoping for a nice rec (?). wish i cld afford a pro-ject for her but likely it would get slightly abused anycares....
― Tom Waits for no one (outdoor_miner), Thursday, 24 April 2014 13:31 (ten years ago) link
Was the handy trax good or did you sell because it was bad?
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 24 April 2014 14:07 (ten years ago) link
I liked it pretty well. Not too loud, but good enough. Nice and light.
― Kornblud (admrl), Friday, 25 April 2014 16:52 (ten years ago) link
a friend rec'd me this and it looks like exactly what i was looking for fwiwhttp://www.lpgear.com/product/ATLP60.html
― Tom Waits for no one (outdoor_miner), Friday, 25 April 2014 17:15 (ten years ago) link
Anybody have any opinions about Denon turntables?
http://www.needledoctor.com/Denon-DP300F-with-2M-Red-Package?sc=2&category=1143
― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 19 September 2014 13:49 (nine years ago) link
Hello. I guess there might be a more up to date thread but ...
I'm looking for a sub-£200 record player. Any recommendations? I've been looking at Richer Sounds and a few seem to be USB turntables, which I'm assuming means it would be easy to convert vinyl to digital recordings? If so, that would be good.
Ta
― djh, Monday, 23 May 2022 13:16 (one year ago) link
Under 200 I would go for a Project, as they are well respected, if I was recommending a budget turntable, I would try to stretch for a Rega P1.
I dont know all the HIFI brands, but guess they might all be very similar in terms of build quality, and at least the project will have easy to get spares ( replacement needle/cartridge)
USB will allow the turntable to be connected to a computer as an audio interface, to record vinyl on your computer, but the parts used in this USB analogue > digital converter will be far lower quality than anything else, so you pays your money.....
I have never used a USB turntable, so maybe someone else can chime in if there is a big difference between brands.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Monday, 23 May 2022 13:51 (one year ago) link
Thanks my opinionation!
And/or is there a relatively cheap and cheerful way of converting to digital if I buy a non-USB one?
― djh, Monday, 23 May 2022 15:40 (one year ago) link
Does anyone know of something to connect a Technics turntable to a computer for sound in place of an amplifier or the other unit to which it normally connects before connecting to speakers?
― youn, Monday, 23 May 2022 15:53 (one year ago) link
I think you need a digital audio converter (DAC).
A used turntable from the 70’s/80’s could be the best bang for your buck.
― Cow_Art, Monday, 23 May 2022 15:56 (one year ago) link
I’m considering buying a refurbished Technics myself. There’s a 1360 from c.1975 and a slightly later Quartz model (5210, I think). The former is more expensive, but I’m thinking it might be lower maintenance. Any opinions?
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Monday, 23 May 2022 16:47 (one year ago) link
― Cow_Art, Monday, May 23, 2022 11:56 AM (two hours ago)
you wouldn't need a DAC i don't think as the conversion is happening the other way (i.e. the analog signal from the turntable is being converted into digital).
i think you'd just need a typical phono preamp (with RIAA curve adjustment) and you could feed that into the mic/line input of your computer for digitizing via audacity or whatever your recording software of choice is. you could probably get better results if you bought an external interface as built-in mic/line inputs in a computer tend to be pretty noisy.
― 龜, Monday, 23 May 2022 19:01 (one year ago) link
― youn, Monday, May 23, 2022 11:53 AM (three hours ago)
some quick googling suggests it's more trouble than it's worth as the signal from your turntable is too weak to be picked up reliably by the computer and so you'd still need a phono preamp to handle the RIAA curve and boost the signal etc.
― 龜, Monday, 23 May 2022 19:16 (one year ago) link
yup. I haven't used one, but there are phono preamps with USB nowI've owned this brand of phono preamp and this looks like a new model with USB:https://artproaudio.com/product/usb-phono-plus-project-series/
Pro-ject has one here: https://pro-jectusa.com/product/record-box-e/
― mh, Monday, 23 May 2022 20:34 (one year ago) link
(these are technically ADCs afaict)
― mh, Monday, 23 May 2022 20:35 (one year ago) link