Vinyl***What If***

Here is what I learnt about vinyl after 20 years in this hobby. The more you spend, the better your setup gets, the closer it sounds to a good CD player. Eventually when you blow thru about $30K for table/tonearm/cartridge/preamp/cleaner, you'll get a system that sounds exactly as Chord Qutest. So "vinyl sound" is what you're after, don't blow a ton of money. More you spend, the closer to a CD it will be.

This is almost as good as the Marx Bros:

What do you fellows get an hour?

Ravelli: Oh, for playing we getta ten dollars an hour.

Spaulding: I see...What do you get for not playing?

Ravelli: Twelve dollars an hour.

....

Ravelli: Now, for rehearsing we make special rate. Thatsa fifteen dollars an hour.

Spaulding: That's for rehearsing?

Ravelli: Thatsa for rehearsing.

Spaulding: And what do you get for not rehearsing?

Ravelli: You couldn't afford it....

Prof, that reminds me of my first watch, it was Christmas and a "Micky Mouse" watch was one of my presents; it had a picture of Mickey on the face, and his arms and hands were the hands of the watch. I had to know what time it was every 15 minutes, that was the prettiest watch I had ever seen; I liked it better than I would have liked a Rolex.

I'm sure your daughters turntable sounds as good as any audiophile table to her young ears, and it delivers more than is required.

Happy listening.

Back in the day you can find a TT labeled JC Penny that was actually made by CEC who made many TT back then for Marantz, etc.  Try something like that first, spend some money on a decent cartridge to see if that floats your boat@

Happy Listening.

Exactly Orpheus.
She is very happy and truly that is all that matters.
So extrapolate that result to the many thousands who might wish to try vinyl too.

Who are we to tell them that ,no it cannot be done on a low budget? Sure they may end up being hooked and spending a lot more.
Or they may just be content and revel in the whole vinyl experience thing.

Whatever how can we honestly tell them they should not even try vinyl.
After all... YMMV.

Says it all.