audio-talk

Vinyl records making a comeback?

Not in my bloody house they're not.
Not now, not ever.....never

Vinyl is more fun.
That's what I think, at least!

What I would dearly love, is someone to show me a turntable/arm/cartridge combination that costs below £400 and plays without mistracking or clogging up with fizz at the ends of record sides.

I have 600 records laying silent and unplayed.

A nice balanced phono stage for a couple of hundred quid to go with it would be nice too.

Alas, I fear I'm asking too much at those prices.

I see ( or hear ) your point Steve.
Distortion doesn't seem to bother me so much.
I hear it, but accept it.
I just like listening to vinyl.
That said, tangential arms seems to me to less prone to mistracking at the end of the record.

Re phono stages, I think the discussion earlier where fet/valve stages
was used was interesting.

( The "j-FET / Triode Phono front-end" thread )

SteveTheShadow wrote:What I would dearly love, is someone to show me a turntable/arm/cartridge combination that costs below £400 and plays without mistracking or clogging up with fizz at the ends of record sides.

There you go: (I'm biased, of course...)

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/291046086039? ... 1423.l2649

On previous form, should go for about £350. Add one of these to keep dust at bay:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Discwasher-D4 ... 53f971326a

heard today on radio 2 how vinyl is selling like hotcakes
amazing back in the early 90's they said vinyls days were numbered.
vinyl is a overhyped bag o shyte though..flac files are way better..

Cressy Snr wrote:What I would dearly love, is someone to show me a turntable/arm/cartridge combination that costs below £400 and plays without mistracking or clogging up with fizz at the ends of record sides.

The one you have now

vinyl is junk.
i have spent 40 years messing with it..never managed a good sound...i gave up with it 10 years ago.
might aswell flog me gyro sme series v..utter pos the whole lot of it



paid around 1.3k for the lot in 2002.
worth double that here now...cba to sell it though..nice ornimant i suppose

Thermionic Idler wrote:

Cressy Snr wrote:What I would dearly love, is someone to show me a turntable/arm/cartridge combination that costs below £400 and plays without mistracking or clogging up with fizz at the ends of record sides.

The one you have now

Indeed!

Rudolph Hucker. wrote:vinyl is junk.
i have spent 40 years messing with it..never managed a good sound...i gave up with it 10 years ago.
might aswell flog me gyro sme series v..utter pos the whole lot of it



paid around 1.3k for the lot in 2002.
worth double that here now...cba to sell it though..nice ornimant i suppose

Yeah, well, if you buy cheap belt-driven rubbish like that, what do you expect?

I haven't costed MY turntable setup but I reckon it must be into 5 figures by now... and it works pretty well...

Five figures............ ...............What.......£101.99p

Thermionic Idler wrote:

Rudolph Hucker. wrote:vinyl is junk.
i have spent 40 years messing with it..never managed a good sound...i gave up with it 10 years ago.
might aswell flog me gyro sme series v..utter pos the whole lot of it



paid around 1.3k for the lot in 2002.
worth double that here now...cba to sell it though..nice ornimant i suppose

Yeah, well, if you buy cheap belt-driven rubbish like that, what do you expect?

I haven't costed MY turntable setup but I reckon it must be into 5 figures by now... and it works pretty well...

cost has nothing to do with sound quality.
ok what deck arm and needle you using bozo?

i will need some needle drop recordings from this deck before i believe a single word of this ridiculous claim..easy to do so please crack on with it as i need a good laugh today.

10k plus on a record deck lol..you need to seek help ya muppet

btw a well sorted technics 1200 will wipe the floor with most decks..even a model 30 sme ..those decks are utter junk..30k plus lol..fools and his money ffs..

thermonic idler gets up some needle drop recordings for me to scrutinize..i garantee u a well sorted flac files system will wipe the floor with it.
i will then test it side by side with some computer files lol..vinyl is distorted garbage ffs..cd is junk ofc.full of compression..lossless files is the future and flawless