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Gerrard GT 10

My 90 year old in laws are downsizing.  They have offered me their turntable, which probably hasn’t been used since 1990.  I’m not a vinylista, but I do have a Project Phono pre amp with usb output, and I have identified a few albums in a local resale shop that have never been digitalized that I would like to hear.  First step would be to just play the albums, then I may try to record them to a flash to transfer to my Melco NAS.
  I’ve been warned that the belt may be rotted out at that vintage, and I wouldn’t risk the stylus on any vinyl, so I am contemplating a decent but not to expensive mm cartridge, and that, along with any other useful advice, is what I seek to find here.  Any thoughts?
mahler123
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fuzztone
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Good luck with your setup. A cheap Audio-Technica MM will probably be fine. 
Like a $69 AT-VM95E (Elliptical)
That P-J box is about as good as you want to attain your goal.

Have fun. 24-96 is preferred if you can get there.

mahler123 OP
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Yeah, it’s more for fun than anything else.  Still, hoping to get some decent sound.  I used to own one of these tables back in the day.  My lps were destroyed in a flood at the dawn of the CD era but I stubbornly hung on to the tt and moldy  bad smelling albums, even though they were unplayable, for a few years.  I came home from work one day and found my kids using it to launch Beanie Babies airborne.  Hey, at least someone was getting use out of the table
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chakster
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You can buy a new belt here

BUT vinyl is definitely not for transfer to digital, it makes no sense, you can find all those albums in digital in better quality than your own transfer could be (on those equipment). 

Vinyl is analog, if you like vinyl do not convert it to digital! Enjoy vinyl. 



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