pick a Rega or VPi in your price range - if not the best performance/$$ then they will be very close

if you play music loud, or have wood floors, then sand box it

a cover on while playing helps

high quality phono stage and everything else...

Lots of good info here.
Next round we will investigate old jukeboxes.

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Did you get a turntable?

Of the four I have, Technics, B & O, Garrard, Akai, the main one lately, is the Akai from Costco that has built-in Bluetooth and can digitize to my laptop and then to the phone, hooked up to a Rotel phono amp, Yamaha amp and Klipsch speakers. For my old ears, just fine. I'm putting all favorite LP's on my phone so that I can listen to them in my car, the same exact thing I used to do with cassett tapes; get the music from vinyl to portable.

quick question, does the Akai compress the signal from the vinyl or allow the fullness of the record to get to your laptop?

I think Wurlitzer did build a solid unit. I have the first year of stereo which is also the last year of tube amps (dual). I've been through the whole thing and then ended up taking it to an expert. I couldn't even begin to describe the number of working parts. And all it takes is one fussy relay to jamb up the works.

AFA turntables go, jukeboxes have the worst design when the record is playing vertically.

Not all play vertically

Good question but over my pay grade. I'm guessing compressing.

I compared sound from a CD and iPod through the Yamaha/Klipsch system or the iPhone through a variety of Bluetooth speakers and I cannot discern significant loss of sound, but then my hearing is 70 and damaged from a misspent youth of high volume music listening.

I spent a year visiting one friend regularily who had an apartment over a hardware store in a commercial area with a 30 x 30 living room, two walls of speakers, each wall with it's own amp, TT's each with it's own amp, tuner with it's own amp, amps and speakers everywhere. We did some damage.

Here's the specs on the one I bought but it is not carried by Costco anymore.

https://www.akaipro.com/bt500

No siht??

green ? or what?
just in case you don't know........I can't tell..

What about the classic (and cheap) Gerrard changer? Proof that nostalgia can trump quality...especially given that these 64 year old ears likely would not notice any difference!

It's part of a Telefunken console bought in 1960 by dad. No way I'm putting my LP's on that medieval device.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1567351375.jpg

I was just making some adjustments to my cartridge and thought about this thread

Did you ever get a turntable?

I stumbled on this the other day...gorgeous turntables from Lithuania:

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That wood-wrapped Thorens on the bottom is nice looking to my taste. ^^^ I don't really go for the space age looking ones on this thread. I have a couple of old B&O Beograms on the shelf getting dusty, need to drag them out and find someone to service them someday. :cool:

Zeke that TD125 was my first "high end" turntable. I wish to heck I still had it. And the Revox B77 that went with it.

Hey Denis, Dust off that Beogram and plug it in. Just may be fine. I have a Beogram
5500 in use. Works great! I have another 5500 new in box never been used that I need to pick up a cartridge for. Intend to use it as well someday.

I used to have one of these (Empire 698 Troubadour), back in the day. It had this wonky raise/lower device that would lift the arm at the end of the record. The round touch pads next to the power switch would raise/lower the arm as well. Never could get it adjusted to reliably lower the arm slowly. Still have the Marantz 2325 and the Bose 901's, haven't been powered up in years.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1572726866.jpg

I walked into this place last month and my mouth dropped. Owned by a couple of air-cooled vw and Porsche guys.

pitch perfect fine audio systems

EMT 930 (or if you have dough, EMT 950) are hard to beat when it comes to transcribing LP's to another carrier.

I would not use them to "listen" to LP's as they tend to wear out the LP's. But they are great when it comes to delivering 100% of "what is there".

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