Top 5 Reaons to NOT BUY A TURNTABLE.

The OP left out another reason:  The music lover was an armory specialist in the SEALS and refused to use earplugs.

The recording industry is digital and even tapes are converted to digital.

If you only listen to recordings made on tape and pressed before going digital, that's terrific. If you listen to modern recordings or modern pressings, you're deluding yourself.

@pedroeb yet you stream your digital content, upload, download, or play a CD and run that signal through a Digital to ANALOG converter and push that signal to your amp. So what is your point? 
Analog to Digital to Analog. 
Talk about delusional…. 

I love the sound of Vinyl but not the care and feeding it requires. I used to rip Vinyl and listen through my PC/DAC/Music Server to this day. Very rarely did I break out a disc to spin. I used to do a first play onto cassette before the digital age saved me so much trouble.

Screw Vinyl and the greedy flippers that buy and sell it for profit. I sold my collection many years ago and have never looked back.

I have friends with excellent Vinyl rigs and collections. So I go to their places when I want to hear some LP’s.

The Analog Kid is now a Digital Man !

Man, what is with the obsession with the so called crackle and pop? I have very little of it, and even when it exists, it is not bothersome, as the music sounds great through a great analog set up. I will say it, if you are not into records, you are missing out...such a shame. Even my freakin thrift store finds sound awesome! All nice and cleaned up with my record dr V. You are also missing out if you are not into cassettes and Cassette decks...not the cheap A$$ ones, the nice 3 head Naks and Awai decks of the day. People crap all over cassettes because they never heard them on a great deck. Look at John Devore’s videos....he’s got some nice decks....I'm sorry, but some people are screwy...