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Originally Posted by Paul Smeenus
IF you're looking to DJ a Technics direct drive turntable will work best. If you want the best sound quality for personal use, entry level belt driven audiophile tables such as those by Music Hall, Rotel and NAD would sound a lot better. In the application you're looking for, I'd probably look at a technics with s good phono cartridge.
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Cheers for the response Smeenus.
It is literally just to listen to my record collection on, I have no interest in DJing.
A lot of those words are like a foreign language to me. I'm currently using a piece of
shit, so pretty much anything would be a step up.
Is the turntable I posted any good or should I avoid it?
Just looked for what you mentioned:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/PROJECT-DEBU...hall+turntable
250 is too much for me imo. It doesn't have to be the dog's bollocks, just half decent like. I'll post a picture tomorrow of what I currently use. It really is s
hit.
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Most cheap cleaners suck ass TBH, but I'd imagine that's what you'll probably get, probably the Audioquest carbon fiber record brush. I dropped $200 on my record cleaner and it is one of the best investments I've ever made.
Record Doctor - V - Record Cleaning Machine-Audio Advisor
I can't begin to describe how this device made the record sound eight hunfred times better. I don't have time right now but later on I'll upload a record I transferred to digital from a friend of mine that literally rescued his records from a flooded basement
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I wasn't even thinking of buying anything :d, thinking more along the lines of giving it a wipe with some wet tissue. Bad idea?
Some of my records sound slightly out of tune in places but they are 40+ years old given to me by my parents, will cleaning them fix them or is that a problem with the turntable?
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Originally Posted by GuitarBizarre
I'd say that for Vinyl in your situation, avoid technics - the 1210 has never been a particularly compelling alternative to a good belt drive turntable in the home, and with their discontinuation by Panasonic (Matsushita, Panasonic's parent company, owns and runs Technics), prices for a 1210 of any vintage, have absolutely skyrocketed.
The two most common turntables I see recommended, are the Rega Planar 3, or the Project RPM1.3 Genie. I own the Genie myself and honestly I'd suspect it's difficult if not impossible to do better for the price. It's an MDF, formed plinth, which is self damping and has only 3 feet to prevent rocking, and it comes in 2 variants - the one with the OM3E cartridge, which sets the pricing here in the UK, and a variant with the much superior Ortofon 2M Red cartridge, a £40 upgrade over the OM3e with no change in price.
It's above your budget, but consider saving for one. It can and will beat seven shades of **** out of the pioneer you linked (Which is a common but honestly flawed budget model - functional but not hi-fi).
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Cheers mate.
I can afford it easily on it's own, but the problem is once I've got the turntable I'm gonna need some speakers, then an amp and so on... So it's gonna be expensive obviously. It's not really a necessity. That one you posted looks **** hot though.
I will have a look on Head-Fi at some point too.
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Alternatively, Rega Planar 3's have a great used market - try and find a bargain.
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I love bargains
. Will have a browse over the weekend for this.
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Originally Posted by GuitarBizarre
I should also say - cursory googling indicates the price of the Pro-Ject Genie has gone up a LOT since I bought mine - I paid just under 200 english, (189) they're significantly more than that on Amazon and I suspect that price isn't reflective of how much you can actually buy them for. Try and scout around dealer's prices and try to haggle them down. Maybe even look secondhand.
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Is it safe to buy second hand for a turntable?