@reubent, Thanks for the welcome! My new turntable . . embarrassed to say after seeing the equipment you guys use. I don’t anticipate playing vinyl much, so when my 30+ year old Kenwood died, I was looking for a replacement in the $300-$500 range. Found an offer from Turntable Lab on a Denon DP—300F for $280. Denon puts their own lesser cartridge on it, but Turntable Lab was offering an upgrade that included a pre-mounted Ortofon 2M Red, so I bit.
Im cleaning 40-60 year old records using the Spin-Clean and they don’t sound too bad. Actually, I don’t remember them sounding this good back in the day. Of course, the equipment Im playing them through is considerably better than I ever had back then.
Found an old Cream Album and some young Roy Orbison (I inherited records — a lot I didn’t purchase, which is cool too!)