What is best turntable for listening to Rock from the sixties like Led Zeppelin?

David Lindley is a national treasure and I've seen him live many times…seeing him again in mid April.

Music style specific gear seems strange to me, but I'll bite. I have plenty of LPs from the 60s because I was there (old person alert), and I suggest listening to any of it with the best turntable you can afford. I also suggest the first Jeff Beck album ("Truth") as I think it's more interesting and I actually do still listen to that one. An early (for me anyway) band I was in opened for Zep once on part 2 of their first US tour (May 1969)…early live Zep were crazy dynamic (!) and actually really nice guys. They used our bass rig (2 Sunn 2000S amps, and one 200S…large and loud). You kids have no idea…*snort*…*cough*...

Note that my turntable could not do well with the "unplugged" Norwegian Gypsy Death Metal Polka tribute to Myron Floren albums (there are four), but this could have been due to the fact that I took the "unplugged" part perhaps too literally.

I'm with Atmasphere on this as it comes up often, "What preamp should I use for modern jazz, solo oboe, and recordings of caterwauling chimpanzees in heat?"

Also, when I was 18 and playing in the aforementioned band, a local groupie told me she heard the Jeff Beck group and thought I should try to be like Rod Stewart. Yeah…I'll get right on that...For a kid in a 60s Honolulu blues band I, of course, was utterly unqualified to be anywhere. Luckily the rest of the band was pretty good, and after all these years I'm still unqualified to be anywhere, but it works for me.

My first decent playback rig was a KLH Model 20 compact system (the one without the tuner). Built-in Gerrard table with a Pickering cart festooned with a little record brush sticking over the end…cool…really good sounding speakers for that time.

The flaw in the Music Specific Gear argument is simply not understanding music reproduction's basic facts, among these the "low level detail" content myths…if you think Zep and AC/DC recordings lack anything sonically relative to classical oboe concertos or harpsicords, you may not be paying attention. Also, if your hifi rig can do one, it can certainly do the other. (Harpsicords are somewhat monodynamic in output, like a bad Rock and Roll recording), but a case can be made (easily) that electric guitar tone details, acoustic drum and cymbal sounds, and vocal tone are all as rich in tonal content as the Philly, just different music. All speakers have their output limits and pretty much any home drivers (not including my Italian driver Guido who is outside polishing the Bentley as we speak) will pop instantly if given a micro second of concert level uncompressed sound, unlike pro speakers which can take the hit (generally). I use the same gear for live shows with the Baltimore Consort and electric version Julian Lage (with drums and bass), and it all works perfectly with either genre (and the mains weirdly also have Italian drivers). You can own a reticent little system in your home that can't handle harpsichords, and I can imagine that it doesn't handle Bon Scott either.

Yeah…anybody who isn't clueless about actual music might have differing views. What nonsense…a clear weird bias against supposed "guitar amp fuzz" indicating a very limited understanding or appreciation of great Rock and Roll music renders the previous post hogwash. To have "Groups like Led Zeppelin" require a type of turntable with "less definition" implies somehow that tube guitar amps utilized in the studio by great payers, or recording technique like that from George Martin or Glynn Johns or many others with taste and skill somehow have less worthy fidelity. "Less affected by stylus drag"…man...

I’ve professionally mixed, recorded, and performed electric and acoustic music for decades, and if anybody thinks acoustic instruments are less dynamic than electric ones, they’re unaware of the of the basics of music sound and reproduction. And that’s OK…comments like "over cook the solo" demonstrate a sincere but utterly naive perception of sound not actually existing in reality. Steve is almost charming in his somewhat innocent weird little world, and Atmasphere is 100% correct.

I primarily use 3 electric guitars these days (and one lap steel) made with differing woods, pickups, bridges, etc., and the sound and feel of each is completely different. That's why I use them. My amps are tube (except my current bass amp) with and without tube rectification, either push pull and single ended, with differing speakers…and they sound different…each as unique as my acoustic guitars. Note there are actual experts here, and to ignore expertise is a missed opportunity to learn something.

I’m from Honolulu where I worked as a musician from 1967 to 1986. I moved to the Right Coast, still play here and there, and mix live concerts as an insanely esthetically rewarding sideline (highly recommended). The name Wolf Garcia is the result of my borrowing the last names of two people in my office (owned a banking business) when doing a show in 1998 or something…I kept the name for show biz stuff because I found it to be fun.