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

[rettucs]

yeah - the symptoms sound like that but the record player does have a pre-amp
and the amplifier has a phono input.
a few years ago i asked on this thread for advice and made sure i got something
with a pre-amp after being told what that was.
the turntable is an Audio Technica AT-LP120 it's a copy of the Technics SL 1200.
maybe the pre-amp isn't much good in these ?

but fifteen minutes later...
Well i googled if the turntable pre-amp was any good and could an external one be used.
so i found out a switch on the back of the turntable labeled PHONO turns on/off the
pre-amp...
and voila ! everything sounds very good now - problem solved. simple as that.

i suppose the situation was :
there was a pre-.amp in my old stereo so this never was turned on before.
also a second older turntable also sounded crap with new amp as it
doesn't have a pre-amp.
if both sounded bad i figured the problem was elsewhere.


if i had asked some else to look at this a second head would have sorted both my problems in twenty minutes but i tried to do all on my own...

special thanks to Coru Ammonis and also thanks to Pete, Hydromancer and Shaney
for helping me get to this point - Y'all are (record) players.

listening party round nuke's gaff listening to steely dan vinyls

 

[therealjohnny]

any use or plastic garbage?

GPO Cream 1950's Style 4 in 1 Music Center with Turntable MEMPHISCR

Stereo System with Turntable | Clas Ohlson

 

[chris d]

You would have to imagine, plastic garbage.

My all-in-one Teac MC-D800 went back to the shop with the record player speed being too fast. Unfixable, so I got store credit and went the separates route last weekend. My new turntable cost the same as the previous entire Hi-Fi. So the whole thing cost a fucking fortune, but at least it's done now.

 

[therealjohnny]

I guess if you want quality separates is the way to go

 

[rettucs]

You would have to imagine, plastic garbage.

My all-in-one Teac MC-D800 went back to the shop with the record player speed being too fast. Unfixable, so I got store credit and went the separates route last weekend. My new turntable cost the same as the previous entire Hi-Fi. So the whole thing cost a fucking fortune, but at least it's done now.

whatcha get?

I've a rega rp1 turntable
a denon something pre-amp
and big fuck-off speakers by someone fancy.
Got a cheapo tuner from richer sounds in belfast but it's perfect
and plugged in an old Sony CD player.
It takes up a fair whack of space but I love it.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

I think I'm done with the cassette revival. I never listen to any of the tapes I bought in the lat few years, I upload the accompanying free downloads to Google Music and stream them from there instead

 

[therealjohnny]

I recently gave away/threw out all my cassettes. The tape deck on my hi-fi had broken ages ago. The hi-fi has also since been binned. It lasted nearly 18 years so I'm not complaining. I have a cheap USB turntable that does the job but plays 7"s a little too fast. I'm either looking for a combo or a cd player + amp that I can connect to the turntable. Some mad prices out there.

 

[ann post]

I'm currently shopping for a new turntable just because the one I have is shite and I like my records too much.

I went separates a few years back and recommend it.

 

[shitepipe]

Thread jack: Anyone know where i could get a Nakamichi tape deck repaired in Dublin/close by?

 

[chris d]

whatcha get?

I've a rega rp1 turntable
a denon something pre-amp
and big fuck-off speakers by someone fancy.
Got a cheapo tuner from richer sounds in belfast but it's perfect
and plugged in an old Sony CD player.
It takes up a fair whack of space but I love it.

I did all my shopping in richer, so it was a case of what they had and what I could afford.

Got a Teac TN-300 turntable.
A Yamaha R-S202 receiver. This is way bigger than it looked on the website. It was the only one with Bluetooth and FM in my price range.
And I got the cheapest CD player they had, which wasn't that cheap. A Cambridge Audio CD5.
Had two small Teac speakers left over from the original hi-fi, which are doing a nice job.

The whole kit is massive. Thankfully I had the old TV stand left over from the move from the apartment. Looks swish.

 

[therealjohnny]

Would an amp be required or do some CD players come with one on board?

 

[chris d]

mmmm, dunno. That Cambridge cd player needed a double left/right cable to go into the back of the Yamaha.

 

[hydromancer]

Every thing I have is second hand from adverts. An amp for 20 quid speakers which are actually for a car in some old speaker box's and a Stanton turntable which is an American dj type table it weighs a ton and will last forever I think.
Of course I'd like to change most of that which I might try to do a bit at a time not to mention get a cd player and a tape deck although I'm a little reluctant about tapes since probably I've had enough of them.

 

[hydromancer]

All junk really

 

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[GARYXKNIFEDX]

I recently gave away/threw out all my cassettes.

I hope you didn't bin any irish punk demos?

 

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[therealjohnny]

I hope you didn't bin any irish punk demos?

The Irish punk stuff went to good homes

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

The Irish punk stuff went to good homes

but not mine..........