Unfortunately I sense that many of you either recommend or trash product that you haven’t heard or used. No names, but it’s easy to tell! Chakster, your advice is most logical! At $900-$1000, the Technics 1200 mk7 seems the highest performer of the group mentioned. Add an AT-VM95EN (nude elipical), and you have a great rig. Also there are the ML and SH stylus upgrades.
Looking for a turntable around $1k...
I don’t and won’t have tons of $ to throw into an analog set up. I’m primarily digital and CD but I still have enough recordings that are vinyl only as well as others of sentimental value that I listen to regularly enough that I can justify getting a decent turntable, at least at the price point I set. I know that some people have expensive opinions about turntables, but I can’t go there.
My listening set up is a Schiit Mani phono preamp, a Decware Torii MkIV amplifier, and Omega 6.5” Alnico Junior XRS speakers if that all matters.
I’ve been using a Technics AT-LP120 for years and I have come to hate it. The tone arm is floppy and it has become pretty much impossible to lower the needle without it bouncing off the record. If someone down the block sneezes, the record skips. No matter where I place the table. Everything about it has gotten worse and I fear that the turntable is damaging my records at this point.
I’ve been considering the Rega Planar 3 but do I even need that?
Is there a sleeper turntable around $1k that I don’t know about?
Could I just get by with a Planar 1 or 2 given that vinyl is what I listen to 3rd most behind HD streaming and CD?
My listening set up is a Schiit Mani phono preamp, a Decware Torii MkIV amplifier, and Omega 6.5” Alnico Junior XRS speakers if that all matters.
I’ve been using a Technics AT-LP120 for years and I have come to hate it. The tone arm is floppy and it has become pretty much impossible to lower the needle without it bouncing off the record. If someone down the block sneezes, the record skips. No matter where I place the table. Everything about it has gotten worse and I fear that the turntable is damaging my records at this point.
I’ve been considering the Rega Planar 3 but do I even need that?
Is there a sleeper turntable around $1k that I don’t know about?
Could I just get by with a Planar 1 or 2 given that vinyl is what I listen to 3rd most behind HD streaming and CD?
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