Turn Turn Turntable Thread

imo this one is a little janky, but certainly affordable and FINE

I'll be watching this thread - I need to get a new turntable.

god i wish pro-ject would put out a $150 table in different colors. i could sell something like that for sure. people who didn't even know they wanted a turntable would buy one.

http://www.needledoctor.com/core/media/media.nl?id=10412&c=ACCT106601&h=1b4dca00927fab731bd8

what kind of a turntable do you need, michael? what's your price range?

i always tell people to go rega, cuz i love mine so much. and they have a range of prices. can't really go wrong with any of them. but they aren't CHEAP cheap or anything.

http://www.needledoctor.com/Online-Store/Rega-Turntables

i wish the numarks didn't look like some plastic hunk a junk. but the price is certainly right.

michael is pretty swank so he might need this one. only $150,000!

http://www.needledoctor.com/core/media/media.nl?id=19139&c=ACCT106601&h=fdd60514722ddcd6e11b

The old turntable isn't grounded or something and makes a buzzing sound and I'd like to get a new one with USB capablity to record some of the gf's old vinyl. 69's suggestion looks good but in a house with insane felines, I really think it behoves me to get a dust cover. I'm not looking for anything super expensive - it's just for home listening.

Can't see the image. Link?

these are cheap. hundred bucks.

http://www.amazon.com/PLTTB3U-Direct-Turntable-Internal-Outputs/dp/B00476N8DY

hell, that's what i should get for the store! thanks, me!

Cool, thanks Scott!

Has anyone seen one of these linear tracking turntables like the Technics sl-5 in action? I'm tempted but also a bit scared to buy one for cheap on craigslist. I'm afraid that the 'automatic' queuing of tracks may become irritating after a few weeks.

Advance to 1:00 in this video, it shows how it works:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWVGsHuDeK4

I had a Sharp linear-tracking turntable for awhile, one that had a slide-out drawer so you could stack things above it. It originally had two cartridges, one above & one below, so it could play both sides of a record by itself. But by the time I got it only the top side worked and unreliably at that, so I ditched it. It was kind of like this one, shown here with its case removed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bS2RarB0_A

Oops, not that one, but that is a way-cool turntable! WANT!

Here's the one I had:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51FDQWS_pkg

Thanks, those are very cool! I am worried about the reliability, though. It would be my main turntable since I'm trashing the old Denon I've been using. I don't see any turntables currently in production using linear tracking, so I wonder if there is a fundamental problem.

I don't know how reliable they are compared to conventional pivoting tonearms, but the supposed benefit of linear tracking was that the needle would always be at a perfect 90 degree tangent which theoretically would yield better sound quality, since records are cut using linear tracking. But in practice, there wasn't really any audible difference, and the only real advantage (in some situations) was their smaller size and for some of them, the slide-out drawers or front-load flaps and two-sided playback capability.

I had a B&O linear tracking turntable. I'd thought it might cure the problem of pitch variance in records pressed slightly off-center, thinking that the linear arm might slide back and forth to compensate. But it didn't work that way; it still pivoted at one point. Made the problem worse, in fact, because of the shorter arm swinging through a greater angle. Worked fine on normal records, though.

I sold my Gyro SE/RB300/MC25FL last week - to a nice chap from Welling for whom it was his first new turntable in 40 years. And he still had that one (a Garrard 401, an 18th b'day present).

Currently using Planar 2/RB250/Bias 2 into my Cyrus Two's MM stage. It's not bad. Not sure how old the cartridge is. Bit ragged in the upper mids and sibilant on voices but everything else sounds pretty good.

recommendations on a nice three speed turntable?
my portable i was using for 78s kicked the bucket, and the one i am borrowing temporarily takes ~forever~ to get up to speed.
figure it's time to buy something that will last.

Bit late to the 4 month old post, I borrowed a Technics SL-5 for a while in the late 90s, but gave it back because it sounded awful. Around the same time I had one of these though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2kFPFnhu2Y

It sounded very good indeed, but broke after a couple of years and couldn't find anyone to fix it, so went for a Technics 1200, which has worked flawlessly since then - would recommend going for a 1200 to all but the most dedicated audiophiles.

But I would love one of these with the jog wheel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnKFcdO2wlQ

get this when you are rich:

http://www.rega.co.uk/html/planar78.htm

I wonder how niche that niche is.

I ended up buying a 1600mkII

Got a project debut carbon at the weekend. It looks and sounds amazing, not that I have much experience with turntables that aren't made of plastic.

kinda gushy at how good it sounds tbh.

Burn in is mostly bollocks tho, right?

i just bought a cheap turntable from this dude and it's an old Philips 212. Sounds great!

Just checked this thread because I think I want to get a better turntable than my old Ariston ATT420 sometime soon, and remembered my dad's old Philips 212 which I inherited in my teens. God, I loved that thing. Can't remember why I replaced it, and am now hankering to find another one.