Dipping my toe into vinyl, a complete novice and so need a turntable and speakers. Bluetooth is preferable for now as it give flexibility. Any recommendations on set up would be gratefully received!
Dipping my toe into vinyl, a complete novice and so need a turntable and speakers. Bluetooth is preferable for now as it give flexibility. Any recommendations on set up would be gratefully received!
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Rega Planer3/RB200 arm? - high end but not Linn Sondek pricing. Likely newer alternatives to RP3 too as I havent kept in The Game.
Appropriate/matching catridge will be required.
L-K
PS based on my 'kit' few years back now.......
I’ve got both: LP12 with Valhalla PSU etc - cost a load of money in the mid eighties. I bought a Rega Planar3 for my office in 1993. Currently the Sondek is in its box and the Rega is my go to turntable (only have one room with HiFi in it nowadays)Originally Posted by Low-Key
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Entry level with good reviews https://www.whathifi.com/reviews/sony-ps-lx310bt
https://www.whathifi.com/best-buys/b...plate-spinners
Last edited by sundial; 5th May 2024 at 22:38.
"Well they would say that ... wouldn't they!"
Comes down to budget, how much space you have etc, if you have any kit you can reuse. I don't think that BT needs to be much of a consideration, you can get any number of adaptors to add it.
A decent second hand amp with a phono stage, then a turntable , a rega or a pro ject maybe, some speakers and go from there.
Alternatively, go to Richer sounds and have a chat. Any of these for £300 will be perfect, you might be able to come up with something slightly more interesting shopping around but these set up would be perfectlu okay
https://www.richersounds.com/promoti...tem-deals.html
I have that Tangent amp in a secondary system and it's totalling fine, and has BT as requested
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Not sure how good it is but my Michell Gyrodec sure looks the business...
Although I cannot be bothered with vinyl (see other post) that is a thing of beauty and I can imagine loving to watch it play even more than any sound from it. A friend of mine had a Transcriptors turntable in the late '60s and it was such a departure from the norm - also a thing of beauty and maybe a source of inspiration for the Gyrodec? https://filmandfurniture.com/product...ckwork-orange/Not sure how good it is but my Michell Gyrodec sure looks the business...
John Michell (who designed and made the Gyrodec above) used to make parts for Transcriptors before taking over manufacturing of them so they're definitely a source on inspiration!
I've had a Gyro SE for many years and it's a lovely turntable.
Very interesting and I am not surprised there was a link. Thank you :)
The Gyrodec is still well thought of, and likely to inspire to play vinyl in an otherwise digital front-end.Not sure how good it is but my Michell Gyrodec sure looks the business...
AND - looks fantastic sitting out on it's own, stationary or in use.
You really can’t go wrong with a Rega Planar. Mine dates back to 1988 and still sounding great
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Not blutooth, but Rega Planar plus green grade might be worth considering
https://www.rega.co.uk/news/item/sav...grade-products
If you can, budget 30% on the TT, 30% on the amp and 40% on the speakers.
As a starting point, gave a look at a decent s/hand Japanese Direct Drive.
They're pretty robust, well designed, easy to use and set up and as long as you're not monitoring signals with an oscilloscope etc you just won't tell the difference. (Seriously)
A Rega Planar RP2 or 3 is excellent.
You haven’t mentioned budget?
Please don’t do it via Bluetooth…!
You can get good value second hand
A rega rp2 or 3 as mentioned above or a NAD 533 is exactly the same (rebadged basically) with the RB200 arm… a simple AT cartridge…. A reasonable pre-amp, an amp and some speakers…. Just ensure they all work together
I have an old technics Sl1210 which I love!
It’s one of my greatest of great pleasures to sit down and listen to my records…. You listen to music in an entirely different way with more focus on completer albums
My wife always raises an eyebrow when a thin 12” parcel gets delivered by the postie as it’s quite a common occurrence!
Mine dates back to 1985, still used constantly and sounding great
I’d say any of the RPs, depending on budget, would be a good choice.
I've got a Cambridge Audio 540p I'd happily post in exchange for a fundraiser donation.
At least i will if I can find out where Mrs Gyp has tidied the power supply
Given you can spend from under £100 to over £100,000 on some TechDAS gold plated monstrosity, some notion of budget would be sensible.
At the starter end of the scale, ReLoop make some excellent budget direct-drive TTs - very much in the Technics SL-1210 mould, but much cheaper than those now overpriced decks.
Direct drive give a sense of bass weight and propulsion that budget belt-drive decks can't begin to match, and you can chase resolution with better cartridges once you're up to speed with setting-up and using viny replay. Some snobbishly dismiss them as "DJ decks", which is nonsense - at the budget they're as good - or often better - than the non-DJ stuff.
The Reloop RP2000 USB Mk2 is supplied with a decent cartridge, and the phono-stage (equalising pre-amp) is built-in, and that has a digital output, which means you can add a cheap blu-tooth transmitter (e.g. BluDento) and thus have a complete vinyl front-end for around £300 or so if you shop-around.
A modicum of flexibility from Bluetooth won't offset the complete frustration (to me, at any rate) of having to swap/flip records every 20 mins. If you have a fantastic vinyl collection but have been using CDs and/or streaming lately, it may be worth investing in good kit with wired connections to get the best from the vinyl. But you may find the hassles outweigh any benefits.
I had a decent vinyl collection from the '70s and bought a deck, amp and speakers in the early 2000s - I soon reverted to my CDs which have now been replaced by a streaming service. My vinyl collection sold at auction for a decent sum.
Not all old stuff is necessarily cheap.
Love the old B&O stuff!
When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks long into you.........
Indeed:
I recently bought a Rega Planar 1 as a temp deck, upgraded the platter to glass ( they do turn up used on eBay but make sure you pick up the 10 mm version) and popped an AT vm95ne I had onto it and it sang better than I was expecting!
I’ve replaced it with a really well looked after Linn Basik with Akito and Adikt cart I found locally so now I need to send my Linn Axis ( basik plus arm, cart now on Rega) for repair and decide which to keep, they both edge the Rega but I paid £150 for the Rega and £35 for the platter, the cart runs about £90 but for £275 it really is a decent sounding deck! It’s currently promised to a pal if he decides to take it but otherwise might end up on sales corner….
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