sumone
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I recently acquired a lot of vinyl records from my Grandmother. However, I have no turn table.
What turn table should I buy? I really am not trying to piece together a system since this will be my first jump into the vinyl game. Maybe later on when I feel that there's more to vinyl than what my turn table provides, I'll go the audiophile route.
Like every other audio venture I've ever dealt with (headphones, car audio, home audio) I start off wanting "audiophile" quality but realize it's just too expensive, too much work is involved than expected, & that I can't even tell the difference between audiophile & budget quality (I don't think!).
My current "rig", if you want to call it that, just consists of my computer (Chaintech AV-710; again, something I bought because of it's "audiophile"-ness and I can't tell the difference between it & the onboard sound card) going to my Klipsche ProMedia 2.1 speakers. (1/8" stereo jack input).
So the turn table would need to have an 1/8" jack output to connect to the promedia speakers.
For now, I'm just trying to listen to the music (and oh yea, without crackles & that phasey rpm speeding up & slowing down effect), and if I wanted to, to feed it into the line-in on my computer so that I could save it as FLAC/MP3/OGG & throw it on CD if I wanted to.
Budget is 200 dollars for something that can #1 play vinyl, #2 amp it to a good level to feed into ProMedia 2.1 speakers and/or amp it up to a good level to feed into a computer's line-in jack.
Is vinyl even better than digital (CD?). Does a vinyl record by itself contain better quality than a CD?
What turn table should I buy? I really am not trying to piece together a system since this will be my first jump into the vinyl game. Maybe later on when I feel that there's more to vinyl than what my turn table provides, I'll go the audiophile route.
Like every other audio venture I've ever dealt with (headphones, car audio, home audio) I start off wanting "audiophile" quality but realize it's just too expensive, too much work is involved than expected, & that I can't even tell the difference between audiophile & budget quality (I don't think!).
My current "rig", if you want to call it that, just consists of my computer (Chaintech AV-710; again, something I bought because of it's "audiophile"-ness and I can't tell the difference between it & the onboard sound card) going to my Klipsche ProMedia 2.1 speakers. (1/8" stereo jack input).
So the turn table would need to have an 1/8" jack output to connect to the promedia speakers.
For now, I'm just trying to listen to the music (and oh yea, without crackles & that phasey rpm speeding up & slowing down effect), and if I wanted to, to feed it into the line-in on my computer so that I could save it as FLAC/MP3/OGG & throw it on CD if I wanted to.
Budget is 200 dollars for something that can #1 play vinyl, #2 amp it to a good level to feed into ProMedia 2.1 speakers and/or amp it up to a good level to feed into a computer's line-in jack.
Is vinyl even better than digital (CD?). Does a vinyl record by itself contain better quality than a CD?