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Recommendation for a 12 year old

So a very good friend of mine's daughter is all into the vinyl scene. I took her to Amoeba Records here in Los Angeles and she picked out some Beatles, some AC/DC(!),and some Nirvana. Guess she's a rock and rolla at heart...gotta love that.

Anyway, she has a turntable that her mom purchased that ran a hundred dollars or so, and as you might imagine it does a fine job of finding it's own way around the records. Groove...what groove?!

So my question is this: What turntable would you recommend to a twelve year old that doesn't completely thrash her records? I am guessing that it should be an automatic or semi-automatic TT to ease with the placement and removal of the tonearm on/off the record. Something used and easy to find. Hopefully loaded with its own cartridge as well.

Any ideas?

GLR
glrtrgi
ebm
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TW Acustic Black Night w/10.5 tonearm.
glrtrgi OP
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Thank you to those who posted reasonable and reasoned responses. I will begin my hunt and am hoping that I have a budding audiophile on my hands. A big responsibility for sure!!Thanks again.
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stringreen
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Ebm....3D or SME are better tone arms...if the 12 yr old decides on the SME, he should get it rewired with better cable.
ebm
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Only you think 3d or SME is better good jump on both now.
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chakster
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Then buy fisherprice, columbia, vestax plastic manual turntable for nothing. Most people grew up with analog of fisherprice turntable for kids in the 70s and played with it even when there were much younger, those decks are manual.

At the age 14-16 some talented kids start DJing with 2 Technics 1210 decks. It's totally safe at this age to use manual turntable and most likely your automatic deck will be broken pretty soon, it's just so boring to play with automatic plastic deck instead of manual.
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