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mikeslps
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Apr 16, 2017
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plasticky and nothing special. If your turntable budget ends at $139, you're way better off buying a used vintage turntable, although there's a lot of junk out there. Find someone knowledgable about turntables and hit local resale stores and Craigslist..... or expand your budget up to $300-$400. Otherwise, one should listen to CDs and high-quality streams. Unless one listens to records because "they're cool". IMHO, one should listen to records for the sound.....and on this thing, there will be no magic. It'll play 'em fine, but at this quality, why bother buying LPs.
Apr 16, 2017
puffyfluppy
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Jun 6, 2017
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mikeslpsWhile your approach to vinyl is perfectly acceptable, and personally why I started to get into vinyl, there is more to it for a lot of people than just the potential increase in sound quality. Something that vinyl has over digital streaming and even CDs, that draws a lot of people to it, is its interactive nature. There's something to the interactive process listening to vinyl: sliding a record out of its sleeve, placing it on the table, brushing it, lowering the stylus, watching it spin as the music plays, flipping the record after every few songs. Then there's the collector side of it: some people just like different/uncommon things and there's a lot of music that I've never seen anywhere but on vinyl.
Personally I only buy well-mastered versions and good pressings of most things (unless it's old classical/jazz that I use as background music). Sure, this table won't extract the detail that a higher-end table and cart will, but you will still get some of the benefit of better mastering and higher dynamic range over a brick-walled CD or digital version.
Additionally, people starting out don't know enough to pick out a vintage turntable, get it repaired and setup properly, and probably don't want to deal with more repairs when something else breaks. It's easy to just drop $140 on something that works right out of the box and comes with a warranty. Plus, aesthetics matter for some people, and you don't see many vintages TTs that look like this one.
All this being said, I don't see a wow & flutter spec for this TT and noticed that it comes with a built-in preamp and USB. So, if you have a bunch of vinyl that you would like to convert to digital, this TT might be an okay option. Otherwise, I would save another $50-100 and buy a basic U-Turn Orbit and a cheap phono or the built-in one. You'll get a better TT and cart for only a little more, with the ability to upgrade to something pretty good later down the road.
Jun 6, 2017
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