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In Reply to: Should I get into vinyl now ?! posted by nataraj on March 4, 1999 at 20:45:51:
I say yes. When I got a turntable about a year ago I took a big chance. I never heard a decent turntable setup. I was at my friends house who has a cheap Technics that he found in the garbage and he was playing some ZZ top and other classic rock albums from his parents collection. I knew it definately sounded different than the CDs and I have heard that a lot of people have turntables and they say they sound better.I thought I would take a chance and get a used table. I searched the newsgroups for a few weeks and other websites and eventually found a used Systemdek IIX with AQ PT-5 arm and Sumiko BP for $400. I also didn't have a phono pre so I bought a used Adcom GFP-555mk.II from a guy I worked with for $200. Well, it was the best purchase I have made so far. I did not own any records at that time and went up to a local used record store and picked up a couple. I got everything hooked up and setup as much as I could without any proper setup tools and it sounded great. I even compared to CDs and I wonder I how I listen to CDs at all. Even my friends who didn't really care much about the sound commented on how good the turntable sounded. Well now over a year later I use my turntable all the time and have over 700 records. Another nice thing about records is a lot of the time people will just give them to you. My parents gave me theirs and so have some of my other relatives and friends. Also, I visit garage sales over the summer and pick up lots of records cheap. Some are not very good, but when you only pay $.10 to $.25 for each one it is okay to get a couple that are that great. I also suggest you eventually invest in a vacuum record cleaner such as the VPI HW16.5.
Big Matt
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