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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
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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.
mechans
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It always depends on the kid. I have seen very wise 12 year old kids and very childish 12 year old kids. You need to adjust appropriately to the best of your ability and desire to gift. I can't afford very expensive so I bought a new Denon DP -29f on Ebay for a very low price for my Nephew about 13-4 years old at the time.
czarivey
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04-22-15: Jrinkerptdnet
not sure about a 12yr old and a "manual" turntable ...
When I was 12 I didn't even know that automatic TT existed.
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sebrof
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Go outside and play!
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oregonpapa
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Don't worry about your daugher trashing the turntable. She sounds like an intelligent girl who takes care of her things. If you train her in the proper use of the TT, she should be OK. I taught both of my daughters to play their records on my sound system. Granted, it wasn't so high-end at the time ... but they did just fine. No broken cartridges either.

How about the least expensive Rega with a $30.00 Grado?
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