i am a owner a raven one with the ortofon 12 inch and i have never owned a TT anywhere near this price point, but in the last 6 years since i have got back into vinyl i have owned a music hall 5- music hall 7- both sounded dead to me and then i bought a thorns 135 that is basically the same as 124 but with out the clutch and strobe and it has finicky speed issues so then- i got off Craig s list a thorns 115 which was highly regarded in 1980 and its sounds clear and good as long as you don't walk across the room because because it weighs about a pound and its squirrely and so then last tt i bought off the bay was a Leno 75 that the seller said was rebuilt blah blah and i read all this stuff online about how great lencos are so i bid top and won this pretty machine where the music goes from flat to sharp back to flat back to sharp back to flat in other word the speed is screwy.
as you can tell i got no biddness owning vintage but i have an ear and i have to tell you that my raven one floats my boat big time it so SECURE and SURE AND STEADY like the atomic clock.
i run a Decca jubilee that could be a disaster on an insecure machine.
its amazing.
i have never gotten to this place with music before.
last night i put on a record i first bought in 1974- Neil young ON THE BEACH and it transported me- BUT not back into time- but into the room where the music was played.
IT WAS SO ACTUAL.
you gotta think that this process of dragging a pin through a plastic grove then up some wires to get music out is a delicate of a process as walking across town with a cigarette ash.you would need a steady hand.
as you can tell i got no biddness owning vintage but i have an ear and i have to tell you that my raven one floats my boat big time it so SECURE and SURE AND STEADY like the atomic clock.
i run a Decca jubilee that could be a disaster on an insecure machine.
its amazing.
i have never gotten to this place with music before.
last night i put on a record i first bought in 1974- Neil young ON THE BEACH and it transported me- BUT not back into time- but into the room where the music was played.
IT WAS SO ACTUAL.
you gotta think that this process of dragging a pin through a plastic grove then up some wires to get music out is a delicate of a process as walking across town with a cigarette ash.you would need a steady hand.