On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Ian Manners <void@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Chuck,
>
> > I saw some of those new fangled turntables in the aisle at a Walmart
> recently. Now I know what they're designed to play.
>
> I bought one, gave it away, seen several other people
> with them. My hearings going but I can certainly see
> why they are 'cheap', meaning from AU$50 - AU$300.
>
> The audio quality is dreadful.
>
> Agreed. For all of the puffery about how "Vinyl is far superior to your
common digital crap", most of these newbies are listening on those cheap
crap turntables or, worse, those portable "record players" that sound
terrible in the 60's, and no amount of "new" is going to make them sound
any less sucky.
> I've ended up using a Sansui belt drive, and a Technics
> direct drive turntable with a small RIAA amp for the LP's,
> and a 10x non compensated amp for the 78's. The output
> of the preamp goes direct to the dedicted sound card in
> my PC. The results are so much better.
>
> I had a Technics belt-drive, but retired it when the belt dried out and I
couldn't find a decent replacement. Several years back, when I was still
working at my late friend's surplus shop, someone brought in a stack of old
stereo equipment and left it with us. Since he had no market for it, I got
a top-notch Onkyo cassette deck (I brought it in for a cleaning and
alignment) and a heavy Pioneer direct-drive turntable that is just fine. I
bought an Ortofon last year along with a force gauge and angle-measuring
thingy. I hope to get it set up soon. I bought a fairly fancy preamp with
the RIAA EQ curve, and will feed that into my DAW. I've got several hundred
LP's that will never see CD unless I digitize them myself.
I use a Ortofon OM cartride with 78 Stylus for the 78's,
> and an Ortofon 2M Red for the LP's.
>
> I would consider that, but I don't have a turntable that will do 78. The
Pioneer does 45 and 33-1/3 only.
--
Paul Braun WD9GCO
Certified Music Junkie
"Music washes from the soul the dust of everyday life." -- Berthold Auerbach
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