Turntable worth the effort?

[sk3lph]

I have a great room now sorted for films and music, details of which are in the link on my sig.

Many years ago I had a Rega Planar 2 (bought in 1986 or thereabouts) as my main music source which I still have as well as around 300 LP's all in good condition.

By way of an experiment and due to the fact that the amp has a phono input I thought I'd see how vinyl sounds through the new setup with the turntable simply placed on top of the AV rack at the back of the room. My initial impressions are it sounds ok, but not as good as FLAC files ripped to the NAS drive which is my current source of choice, which is also very convenient as tracks can be selected without moving from my chair.

So the question is, should I spend some money and get the turntable properly set up (ie shelf mounted with a new cartridge and stylus - original still fitted) or is it not worth the faff? As an additional note, it was nice and a little strange going through the ritual of putting a record on as it must be decades since I last did that.

Thoughts and opinions most welcome

 

[sk3lph]

i don't have a beard , it doesn't have to be expensive at all , charity shops are a great source for finding vinyl , i picked up a hawkwind album a few weeks back for £1.50 , its value is £120/£130

Nice find.

I'm afraid I already have a bit of a beard, however if I need to get a pipe then there may be a problem.

 

[sk3lph]

just had a look at your cinema room build ..very very nice , i was toying with a star ceiling for mine , would you say its worth it ?

100% worth it, looks fantastic and really sets the room off and adds to the wow factor in spades. Not regretted for a second getting it done despite the huge amount of hard work I needed to do to get there.

 

[sk3lph]

Going from experience of using a marantz 6004 phono stage to using a dedicated one I can say on board ok .... but there is a BIG difference getting a separate setup.

I'm starting to think maybe not worth the effort or a least not worth spending a lot of money on - a separate stereo amp and speakers is not an option for the room that I've got.

Edit - on re-read I now see you're talking about getting a separate phono stage instead of using the on-board one, so will still give this further thought.

 

[sk3lph]

For Sk3lph do we know what his Amp is ?

The amp I have is the Yamaha RX-A3050 with Robson Acoustics Chronos speakers.