This July 4th, I dedicated the entire day to vinyl (I usually never play vinyl). Good Lord, what a pain in the butt! Cleaning, lowering the arm to play the record (Am I going to scratch it??? Oh No!!!), getting a whole twenty minutes of music before having to get up and do it again. How did I manage this in my youth when I used to get wasted? No, the "improved sound" of vinyl is not worth the aggravation.
Suggestions on turntable to pair with Rogue RP-7 > Finale 300B SET monos > Heresy 3's
So I've been kind of an asshole when it comes to vinyl, thinking it is too much hassle and the like. Lots of my friends have turntables but they have more patience than I do typically. I have a few terabytes of FLAC files and I'm perfectly happy running music into my system via a Benchmark DAC3 right now. This said, I was just gifted a decent record collection from my former boss, who passed away recently. His final wife called (he was on his 3rd), and said he wanted me to have all his LP's. I did not expect this, and I'm actually thinking of adding a turntable. The hardware is going to his daughter, so I don't get any options on that unless she says she doesn't want it. I don't really want to ask for more than I've been granted as I'm not THAT much of an asshole.
I'm thinking of relocating my setup to another room in the house, but it doesn't mention anything about phono in the RP-7 manual. I'm guessing I'll have to add a phono preamp, but have no experience with this so I'm hoping people have some good ideas to offer. I can probably swing a couple K towards all this, but I'm also willing to save for decent hardware.
Thanks in advance.
I'm thinking of relocating my setup to another room in the house, but it doesn't mention anything about phono in the RP-7 manual. I'm guessing I'll have to add a phono preamp, but have no experience with this so I'm hoping people have some good ideas to offer. I can probably swing a couple K towards all this, but I'm also willing to save for decent hardware.
Thanks in advance.