Top 5 Reaons to NOT BUY A TURNTABLE.

CD music is much, much better than playing a turntable.
I play the turntable only when music is available from a vinyl record only.
I do not hear any difference between/among reasonably-made cables, BUT I clearly hear big difference between CD and vinyl playing same music.

To all music lover, please do not waste your money to buy unnecessarily expensive cables, amp, pre-amp, etc. But get a nice pair of speaker, usually the more expensive, the better. I hope  unnecessarily-expensive cable makers go to all bankruptcy.

I find that playing my lps are better when I'm alone .Its very true it sucks getting up so often to turn the record over.                     I like cds when I'm working around the house or when people are over so I dont have the music stopping...Yes this was a pretty good .i mean i grew up in the 60s n 70s...having friends over and changing the records sucked especially after a few Cocktails that became a hard task, especially if you had a AR turntable. 

I think for the "new to turntable looker" he brings some solid issues to the forefront.

I never recommend getting into vinyl if you have zero records and don’t have a current table. why its really not that much better, if at all, when comparing similar quality DAC/streamer (or computer) to a vinyl play back systems. lets not getting into the cost of the vinyl medium and the shody quality that’s coming out of the pressing plants these days. Also the cost of old records has sky rocketed in recent years. space to store records is an issue as well, mico loft anyone?

Very few people are comparing a $5000 table ( which is relatively cheep for a table/arm/cart/phono stage) with a $5000 DAC, usually the DAC in that system is less than the table system, by a significant margin. Most of my audio friends sort of compare the DAC purchases with a single part of the table playback system. example a new $2000 arm to a $2000 DAC. They rarely compare the price difference of a complete turntable playback system to the DAC/Streamer or computer system.

If you have built up a significant vinyl playback system it better be better than a digital system of much less value.

I know many people who’s vinyl playback systems as a whole cost upwards of $10k but there DAC is less than $2000.

The single box expensive item is harder to justify over a multiple component system built up over time. That’s one of the reasons it’s hard to move to exceptional digital. A $10,000 DAC sounds better than most (not all of course) vinyl playback systems of similar price. Not many people are spending that on a DAC though. Other than the converts or wealthier who can afford both.

People also forget there’s more difference in recording quality than anything else, mastering has a larger effect on sound than the medium IMO.

I think Steve brings some valid arguments.

"A $10,000 DAC sounds better than most (not all of course) vinyl playback systems of similar price."

Glennewdick,
Which $10,000 DAC do you recommend that will do this?

 

My low cost NOS dac with acoustic control of my rooms with speaker 2-way boxes sound better than my friend magnepan and turntable in a uncontrolled room...

And even if his magnepan are better in principle, the absence of  acoustic control dont push them on their optimal level...

Dont bother with dac or turntable  before acoustic inquiry  in your own room...