WTB Turntable - Page 3

kid cue · #21 10-06-2006, 02:34 PM

this thread may help

djeddy · #22 10-07-2006, 10:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GreenPea

Thanks a lot guys. Patrick that is pretty much the sort of thing I am looking for. Thanks!

How is the sound quality on those laser beam turntables? Does it have any disadvantages or they are just more expensive? As for the needles, how often you need to replace those?

erick, you just need a turntable to listen?? not to scratch or need any 'quick start/stop quartz' crap right?

get a belt drive. those are usually more affordable.

in fact audio technica created a turntable that you can connect directly to a system to record from...like converting LP to mp3's. or..if you want something that's LIKE a technics 1200 without the hassle of finding a tuner with phono jacks (there arent much of those out there anyway) get the audio technica AT-PL120..its like 180 or so..looks just like the real thing..it ain't..but at least it has the phono amplifier built in the turntable..so all you have to do is hook it up to wherever your speakers are hooked up to.

GreenPea · #23 10-08-2006, 11:44 AM

Yeah man, thanks a lot Ed. That could really save me the trouble of bying an amp for the time being. The main reason I want the turntable is to buy metal and techno releases that are only available on vinyl. Collecting vinyl is just cooler than collecting mp3's. Also I would like to have some of my favorite albums on vinyl as the cover artwork and so on is so much cooler on vinyl. Besides I am also attracted to the more "dirtier" sound of vinly, I still remember when I was a kid and we still used vinyl records at home.

Anyways I don't want to DJ, I just want to buy vinyl and be able to listen to it

patrick · #24 10-08-2006, 01:23 PM

the problem for me with vinyl is that PVC is just about the worst chemical for the environment, production to it's 'garbage' state...

djeddy · #25 10-08-2006, 01:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by patrick

the problem for me with vinyl is that PVC is just about the worst chemical for the environment, production to it's 'garbage' state...

given society's ever undying nature of not letting the past go. i dont ever expect vinyl to become garbage. it'll always end being part of that ol cliche, one man's garbage is another man's treasure.

GreenPea · #26 10-08-2006, 02:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by patrick

the problem for me with vinyl is that PVC is just about the worst chemical for the environment, production to it's 'garbage' state...

I don't think that the amount of vinyl records pressed this days is enough as to make significant dent on the enviroment. Is CD a more enviromental friendly medium anyways? (honest question, I don't know)