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[Erik the Anglophile]

What kind of turntable do you have?

An 80's Dual 505-3 in good condition, it's my dads first but he has 2 or three other ones to spare so I was gifted it.

 

[corkybstewart]

What kind of turntable do you have?

I still have the Thorens TD 160 turntable I bought in 1973. It's belt drive to isolate the 7.5 pound platter from any motor vibration. Still works perfectly. I play my old vinyl simultaneously with CDs so people can hear the difference: there's no comparison.

 

[balrog]

I still have the Thorens TD 160 turntable I bought in 1973. It's belt drive to isolate the 7.5 pound platter from any motor vibration. Still works perfectly. I play my old vinyl simultaneously with CDs so people can hear the difference: there's no comparison.

I would think playing a CD simultaneously on a record player would wreck the stylus.

 

[day_trippr]

I confess my turntable has been sitting on a high closet shelf since forever. It may well be a Thorens - I know I owned one once. Looks like it has a Grado cartridge from what I can see inside the smoked plastic cover from eye level.

I bought it back in the '70s, along with this - which is in mint condition and apparently could be valued between 3 and 4 times it's $800 original price

Cheers!

 

[Sailingeric]

I still have the Thorens TD 160 turntable I bought in 1973. It's belt drive to isolate the 7.5 pound platter from any motor vibration. Still works perfectly. I play my old vinyl simultaneously with CDs so people can hear the difference: there's no comparison.

With a good cartridge and clean record, it is better than CD. I have an Ortofon Blue on my turntable and have been very pleased with it.

 

[BongoYodeler]

For better or for worse I only ever had one turntable, a Technics SL-D2, fairly average at best, that I bought back in the 70's. Just prior to moving across country in early 2013 I gave it, and over 1000 LPs away rather than hauling them 2800 miles.

 

[fluketamer]

i owned a marantz in the 80's. i also had the BOC, dire and sticks. my brother brother 10 years older than me purchased the zep album. by the time i got into it, it had already gone through wo of my other siblings. it was played so much that it was flat and when i put the needle down it skipped all the way to the center and i was like wtf why keep it.

other albums played flat were abbey road, born to run and almost anything by the dead.

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

You guys make wanna get a new turntable as mine is very entry level and the rest of my stereo equipment has been upgraded to hi-fi .. so I just looked at marantz yeah, gonna have to wait a bit on that upgrade.

 

[GrogNerd]

I mistyped a text to the wife, blaming "fat fingers"

I then looked at that & thought I saw "fart fingers"

so I asked AI to show me "fart finger"

it did not disappoint

 

[ba-brewer]

farting through your fingers would make shaking hands interesting

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

You guys make wanna get a new turntable as mine is very entry level and the rest of my stereo equipment has been upgraded to hi-fi .. so I just looked at marantz yeah, gonna have to wait a bit on that upgrade.

There are plenty decent turntables you can get for 100-250 dollars.
Even new production ones if you don't want to track down a good condition used one.

 

[Rodent]

beware shaking hands with ol' snorkel paws, he's got a severe case of crepitu digitorum

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

Yeah that's what I was previously looking into... well see, maybe Santa will make that decision haha.

 

[pvpeacock]

I highly recommend the Audio-Technica AT-LP120BK-USB Direct-Drive Professional Turntable which is what I bought a few years back. I has both analog and USB outputs. I'm using the latter to digitize my albums (approx. 2,000) slowly but surely using Audacity software. It is time consuming, but let's me take my vinyl on the road with me on my Walker HiFi player.

 

[balrog]

 

[Sailingeric]

You guys make wanna get a new turntable as mine is very entry level and the rest of my stereo equipment has been upgraded to hi-fi .. so I just looked at marantz yeah, gonna have to wait a bit on that upgrade.

I have been very happy with my Fluance Rt-85. It is about $500 and it is one of the better ones, based on my research when I was shopping for one, before you really start to spend $$$ for smaller and smaller returns.

 

[balrog]

Just trying to get past the turntables, but they keep coming around.

 

[pvtpublic]

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Just trying to get past the turntables, but they keep coming around.

 

[Pkrd]

Just trying to get past the turntables, but they keep coming around.

Have you tried using gold font?

 

[corkybstewart]

My nephew's wedding party, in our barn. Thankfully he has the dance floor on the other side of the house.

 

[Ayzala]

I have been very happy with my Fluance Rt-85. It is about $500 and it is one of the better ones, based on my research when I was shopping for one, before you really start to spend $$$ for smaller and smaller returns.

I got the same one about a year ago, couldn't be happier!

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

My nephew's wedding party, in our barn. Thankfully he has the dance floor on the other side of the house.

But did you play music on a turntable?

 

[corkybstewart]

But did you play music on a turntable?

No. Streaming music service. Not my choice, not my party. They just use our facilities.

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

I'd imagine it'd turn out something like this in case @corkybstewart had spent the entire night playing old Zeppelin and Grateful dead records...

 

[corkybstewart]

I'd imagine it'd turn out something like this in case @corkybstewart had spent the entire night playing old Zeppelin and Grateful dead records...View attachment 854329

My brother in law would have loved it, unfortunately his son and especially his new daughter in law would not have been happy. She did not want a country wedding(city girl), she wanted a Bollywood dance wedding in the city her family all live in. Her sister is a Hindu dance instructor, she and her mother are dancers and a group of them danced for the crowd for about 10 dances.

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

Enough with the turntables, take a look at these bad boys!
No pics but we picked a bunch of wild raspberries aswell.

 

[Snuffy]

Enough with the turntables, take a look at these bad boys!
No pics but we picked a bunch of wild raspberries aswell.
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Huckleberries?

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

Nope, blueberries.

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

All that undergrowth is blueberries... I need a new freezer...

 

[Snuffy]

Nope, blueberries.

Are they red inside?
https://www.scandinaviastandard.com/a-guide-to-swedish-berries/