I'm going to buy a record player................... (1 Viewer)

[therealjohnny]

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[GARYXKNIFEDX]

Traitor!!!!

 

[therealjohnny]

i know.. i know..

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Every thing I have is second hand from adverts.

Same here but it would be about 8 years ago when I bought my record player (an old glass platter/wooden surround Rega Planar 2 for €200) and amp (some Rotel job for €50). I played it through an old set of Sony speakers for years but now have the amp outputting to a Sonos Connect which broadcasts it in lossless (well, presumably minor loss) to Sonos speakers around the house. I rip CDs to a hard drive and play those through the Sonos too, tapes are just living in a box at the moment.

 

[hydromancer]

I'd like to get a tube amp actually and see what they are like if I can find something reasonable from China.
I should try to get new speakers first though.

 

[pete]

tapes are just living in a box

living in a cardboard box?

 

[rettucs]

living in a cardboard box?

For my secondary school first year woodwork project I made a yoke for holding tapes. Still use it to this day. Was the only use I got from my secondary schooling.

 

[hugh]

Same here but it would be about 8 years ago when I bought my record player (an old glass platter/wooden surround Rega Planar 2 for €200) and amp (some Rotel job for €50). I played it through an old set of Sony speakers for years but now have the amp outputting to a Sonos Connect which broadcasts it in lossless (well, presumably minor loss) to Sonos speakers around the house. I rip CDs to a hard drive and play those through the Sonos too, tapes are just living in a box at the moment.

I got a Sonos Connect before Xmas and it's great. But... I set it up to route my turntable/amp through the speakers in the other rooms and while it worked fine, when I switched back to using it in normal mode (I.e. Spotify - Connect - Amp/Regular speakers + other speakers) everything went haywire... Spotify app couldn't see sonos speakers anymore etc. Sorted itself out after some messing eventually
..

 

[ann post]

Been in a day long ebay wormhole looking at record players.

Holidays are class.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

I got a Sonos Connect before Xmas and it's great. But... I set it up to route my turntable/amp through the speakers in the other rooms and while it worked fine, when I switched back to using it in normal mode (I.e. Spotify - Connect - Amp/Regular speakers + other speakers) everything went haywire... Spotify app couldn't see sonos speakers anymore etc. Sorted itself out after some messing eventually
..

I only use it to feed the turntable/amp into my Sonos One players throughout the house, never use the Connect itself to play music from online/hard drive, just line those up in each individual Sonos One depending on where I am in the house.

 

[Theseus Mock]

May be of interest to you vinyl playing turntable enthusiasts.

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[Jerry Twig]

Nice, that's the topline Denon (who are generally not great) but give me the Sansui XR Q7 any day of the week.

 

[hydromancer]

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[Unknown Convict]

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they still made those in the 80s. my sister had one which I took apart.

 

[therealjohnny]

A mate just gave me his late Dad's old 3 in 1(turntable, CD, Cassette deck) unit.

I'm starting to think getting rid of all my tapes was a tad premature

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

Serves you right. Ha!!!!!

 

[Theseus Mock]

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[ann post]

Been in a day long ebay wormhole looking at record players.

Holidays are class.

Ordered a Bang and Olufsen one off ebay. Bit of a risk when I coulda gotten a few over the counter brand-news for the same money, but, they look absolutely deadly.

 

[therealjohnny]

Has anyone got one of these ION turntables? Any use?

Turntables | maplinIreland

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

No.