Turntable recommendation

Well I took the time to write you a good recommendation in budget with no profanity and in perfect guidelines. It was removed by a moderator? I will not waste my time trying to post here again. I am sure Mr. Mod you will remove this one also.

James Lovell

EX member

I had the Fluance RT85, it looks and sounds way above its price. A pretty sound choice in every aspect. 

Choosing the TT will be fine, for your budget there will be many options.

Going for vintage will most likely require additional monies are required to be spent, as a service will be required, and if done by a skilled individual advisories might be supplied, suggesting other parts are exchanged.

The first Cart' or even second Cart', need not be too costly, these are very fragile, and a incident is always lurking where the Cart' is the part that comes out the worst. On this type of experience having been met, you are not alone. 

One other thing to consider as ownership and usage evolves, and one that can really benefit a TT, is considerations for how it is mounted. A Equipment Stand/Rack, Wall Shelf, or dedicated Table. All will benefit from having a Sub Plinth and Footers used to support the TT. The learning of how differing configurations influence the sonic being produced, is not needing to be expensive. The results that can be attained will really impress.

I always recommend against getting into vinyl for newbies.  Good new turntables start at $1000 go waaaay up from there.  It's very easy to drop $1000 on just the cartridge.  Not every tone arm works well  with every cartridge.

You spend $20 on a new record and you get about 40 - 45 minutes of music.  The typical 1000 album collection many of us have would cost you $14,000 (assuming you buy 500 new records at $20 each and 500 used at $8 each).  And of course you find that over time, you'll spend 80% of your listening on 20% (or less) of the records you have.  There will be many you just don't care to listen to, so that money is down the drain.

For $15/month, you can subscribe to a streaming service that has millions of tracks of music of all kinds.

I own about a dozen recordings in both digital and vinyl formats.  I hear things about each that I like better than the other.  There are some things you'll like about vinyl and some things you'll find more than annoying.

If you absolutely have to buy into vinyl, then clearly you have more money than you know what to do with.

@njwvista My assessment of my experience with Vinyl as a source is different to @russbutton 

I have experienced very satisfactory music replays on equipment that has not been met with quite so expensive purchase prices for the supporting ancillaries to create a replay, especially in relation to the TT>TA>Cartridge. 

Buying Vintage is a way to reduce a cost, but as said, additional monies may need to be parted with to get the best from it, especially if a DD TT is the selected model. 

Other designs could just require a simple Platter Bearing Service and many TT's have pictorial guidance available on how to achieve this.  

There is plenty in other posts as a direction that will mean that these suggestions are only to broaden your knowledge of choices, as a late adopter of the medium, as a new user or returning user, a New TT like the AT shown will be just fine.

When it comes to collecting Vinyl, there is a cost, but in some cases a cost that can show an appreciation over time.

Vinyl today as a medium, is of interest to more than those interested in audio, it is being collected as a commodity for these very reasons. Used sales sites even have a App that enables one to track their collections value on a daily basis, which is very commodity market like as a practice. 

Here is a experience had by myself that is only a few years old.

I had a shortlist for some Vinyl Album Purchases, mainly being reserved as Birthday and Xmas gifts.

Over the course of a Year, one wanted Album heard many times as a CD and remaining readily available as a CD today, slipped through my list of purchases made. I held off on the idea, and decided it would be a Easter Treat, when pulling the trigger on the purchase the Album that was once £30 and not much more than a year from release was approx' £700 to purchase as Vinyl.

There is not any reason to avoid buying Vinyl, it is today one type of the Hard Media Merchandise, that is being readily made available by Performers, which is  enabling Performers and those that support them, to receive fair remuneration for their work, in a much larger measure than streaming royalties will pass onto them.

This in itself means Vinyl is being produced in smaller batches, as it is funded to be produced directly by the Performers, and will at times peak for the demand, which can mean prices that are showing appreciation.