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Turntable help Please

I am seriously considering getting back into analog. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated...would it be worth the time to try out my old turntable from college (26 years). It is a Philips Electronic 777 Direct Control. It is on a suspended table and is belt controlled. Interconnects are non-detachable - is it possible to change out the tonearm? Is it worth investing in a decent cartridge? Does anyone do mods on old turntables? I don't presently have a phone stage only a line stage (CJ premier 14). Thanks for any suggestions...This table sounded good back them but that was when I was into music and not an audiophile!!!
pops
zaikesman
3,017 posts
 
I know nussing, NUSSING uff der whereabouts uff dose albums!
- S. Schultz
rrick
23 posts
 
Hey Pops, before you sign off records, realize that they are the cheapest way of trying out "kind of recent" music. Plus, there are all kinds of sources for records ranging from eBay to thrift shops.

Without wanting to start a big fight, I would also suggest that mid-fi phono and records will rival and surpass many good CD players and typical CDs.
gumbydammit
186 posts
 
Rrick: I would agree, depending on what you call mid-fi.
I have certainly heard tunes coming out of a Planar2/3 and a bias/elise cart that blew away CD players of the era (Early 90's)

Anyone with 20 records or more, that does not have a table owes themselves a used Rega2 or 3. (In my not so humble opinion.)
pops OP
2,275 posts
 
Zaikesman - dude, you got my albums?
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