I've been bit by the vinyl bug, and was interested in seeing what GRMers have for spinnin' that wax. This is my turntable, a Bang & Olufsen TX from 1984. It took some reconditioning, but it sounds and works (mostly) great!
I've been bit by the vinyl bug, and was interested in seeing what GRMers have for spinnin' that wax. This is my turntable, a Bang & Olufsen TX from 1984. It took some reconditioning, but it sounds and works (mostly) great!
Are you interested in a "junk" B&O? I have one if it hasn't been thrown away. Yours for shipping.
Mine is a Denon DP 500M. I like it well enough. Not my picture, but mine is identical.
Dad has a ReVox that I want badly. Coolest turntable under $1000.
He also has a Thorens, but no clue which model.
As someone who has been feeling a turntable-shaped absence in his life lately, color me interested.
I've had a Thorens for 35 years or so.
That Revox is cool - in the stereo magazines back in the day, Revox used to run pictures of a audio rack with the turntable, a reel to reel, an amplifier and an FM receiver that I lusted over.
Not functioning, but here's a V-M turntable I'm going to play with when the weather gets warmer.
mtn wrote: Are you interested in a "junk" B&O? I have one if it hasn't been thrown away. Yours for shipping.
Maybe. Feel free to PM me with the deets.
Sure thing.
It's an old Motorola console I could never get to work without cutting out, so I gutted it. I used a cheap Sherwood tuner, second hand speakers, a crappy portable CD player, and a quite expensive Music Hall mmf-2.2 turntable.
It is one of my most prized posessions. Looks cleaner in person.
I just have my parents old Akai with the auto return arm but with a newer ortofon cart. Nothing special.
I am between turntables, and recently bit by an odd music bug. We're not sure what we're putting in the living room, but I'm really wanting a Numark PT-01 Scratch:
I have my dad's old Technics SL-QD2. The internet says that it's from 1985.
Shoot. You guys are all Mr. Fancy-Pants. I've still got my JVC QL-A200 that I bought new in 1984-ish. Some low-end Audio-Technica cartridge. Still works great!
U-Turn, from the kickstarter a few years ago.
slowride wrote: U-Turn, from the kickstarter a few years ago.
These guys have one of the few ads I see these days. I was playing with the configurator last weekend. Are you happy with yours?
Having bought my first vinyl LP in about 1975 and my last several hundred records later in about 1989, I really fail to understand the current obsession with vinyl. I was deliriously happy to get my music in a more durable, convenient, and portable format when CDs came along.
On the original topic, I still have my Beogram 1800 in my attic, an extravagance from the early '80s. It needs a cartridge which costs way more than it is worth.
I have a Sansui SR-929. It's a direct drive from the late 70s. I picked it up for $25 at a church junk sale but it's a really nice unit. They go for a lot on the used market but they're fairly uncommon. THis one isn't mine, but it's the same model. I don't have the way-swank tone cartridge he does though. Mine's runnign through a preamp into my home theater system.
I've been buying a lot of vinyl lately. Best record I've bought for graphics and design is the Rev. Horton Heat's latest. The disc is pressed in "engine block gray."
My other favorite for the music fitting the medium if Brett Cobb's Shine on Rainy Day.title track video
Living room setup - nothing too special turntable wise (I did upgrade the needle)
Cheap non-powered "amp" to allow remote volume and source controls and powered monitor speakers
The whole shootin' match
I have a modern retro look all in one.
Here's my Akai from the '70s with my 6k6, 12AU7, 5Y3GT DIY tube amp. I was running it through my Pioneer receiver and out to the tube amp because I didn't have a separate phono preamp, but now I have Behringer PP400.
In reply to Mike:
Yes, I've had no problems with it. I bought the cue lever when they released that, and that made it even easier to use. About the only thing I would really like is auto-return, but that would make it much more complicated.
Duke wrote: Having bought my first vinyl LP in about 1975 and my last several hundred records later in about 1989, I really fail to understand the current obsession with vinyl. I was deliriously happy to get my music in a more durable, convenient, and portable format when CDs came along. On the original topic, I still have my Beogram 1800 in my attic, an extravagance from the early '80s. It needs a cartridge which costs way more than it is worth.
I agree with you in the sense that if CD's were still the forefront of music, I wouldn't be so into vinyl (other than some of my favorite stuff that until recently wasn't easily available on CD's or MP3). But since we've moved into MP3, streaming, etc., I find CD's nearly useless. But I still do want that physical album, which leads me to the vinyl record.
Similar to automatic vs manual transmissions. We now have autos that are better than any manual. I still want a manual in many applications.
Digital music is like freeze-dried food that has been "re-constituted." Sound is an analog phenomenon, hence the purest sound is produced and reproduced by analog means.
In reply to 1988RedT2:
And thats how you get to tube amps!
I don't know that I could call vinyl sound "better" on my very pedestrian equipment, but it is different and I like the ritual of dealing with the physical representation of the music. It creates a certain focus on listening instead of the tunes being more background noise. I also like the more forced album-length experience. I really enjoy the design and aesthetic choices that go into the albums, too. Some of that you got with CDs, but not as much. With digital files you don't get any of it but there are other benefits. Almost everything I buy (new) on vinyl includes an mp3 copy which lets me listen on the move as well. Best of both worlds.
RossD wrote: In reply to 1988RedT2: And thats how you get to tube amps!
Ed Zachary!
You guys have good taste. I approve.
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