When the music plays does the speed change at all, moving slower then faster? Maybe the belt needs changing because it has stretched or is slipping. If you reach around the back and twiddle the wires, do you hear a crackling noise? If so, then there may be electrical connection issues.į: Speed Consistency. VPI PlayerĮ: When it’s ‘doing its thing’ and playing music. One of them is Musonic ( This chap has around 10,000 different styli on his books so your proposed purchase should be in there somewhere.ī: The platter, the rotating flat surface that the record sits on, does it move freely? If it moves yet emits a scraping sound then there might be issues with the internal bearing or something under the platter causing an obstruction.Ĭ: The arm, the piece of metal/plastic that holds the cartridge/stlus, does this move freely? Again, if not there could be problems afoot.ĭ: Does the turntable sit properly? Is it level? If not, there could be a support problem. There are plenty of available sources for these things. If not, you may have to buy an entire new cartridge.) If it is not new, when was it last replaced? If it hasn’t, to be safe, you need to buy a new one. Over and above that, if you want to buy a turntable, you need to ask the buyer several questions.Ī: Firstly, is the cartridge/stylus new? (The cartridge is the body that holds the stylus/needle and is often sold as a single unit – sometimes the stylus can be separated and replaced. If you want to buy second hand then there is plenty of general advice on offer from the likes of eBay, accessible readily within their site. Downside? With any second-hand purchase, you know yourself that you have to be wary of the seller, to some extent (although the likes of eBay help you out on this one by ‘rating’ their sellers to encourage a sense of trust), do all of the parts in the sale item actually work as advertised? Are there any issues? Any problems waiting to happen? For secondhand purchase, you really have to ask lots of questions. An expensive item released in 1985 and worth a few thousand pounds in today’s money might be available on eBay for a couple of hundred, for example. Second Hand? You can buy top quality for a relatively low price. But you pay a premium and, it could be argued, the value for money quotient is lower. You also have an easier time of it if something goes wrong. ‘New’ means that everything works, everything is shiny, whole and in one piece. A vertical shelf system is a good idea although, for the beginner, any available flat area will get you started, at least.Ĥ: New or Second Hand? There are Pros and Cons around this question. Where are you going to put them all? This little lot can take a fair portion of acreage. Of course, all of this might affect your budget.ģ: Space: If you are buying a turntable…and amplifier…and speakers. There are exceptions to that and we’ll get to those later. You will need to think about a few other components to attach to the turntable first, such as an amplifier and speakers. If not, you’ll still have a ball.Ģ: System: if you buy a turntable and that’s all you have in your possession, don’t think “Job done!” In the majority of cases, you will not be able to get any music from a turntable itself. I don’t say that in an attempt to impress you, I offer these words because, if you pursue and continue the vinyl adventure from the early beginnings available below, if you decide to invest more money and upgrade your hi-fi over the months, years and decades, then your vinyl will constantly reward you with improved sonic quality. So, I currently have a turntable here worth in excess of £10,000, a bit more than the turntables on show here and the sound quality from it and the similarly priced components it is attached to is simply staggering. There is no upper limit because analogue has no sonic limit. I addition, the more money you throw at a vinyl system, the more those records will reward you. That is, you can get better sound quality from a cheap vinyl system than a similarly priced digital system.
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