Turntable worth the effort?

It can be worth it....... but the current fashion and hype is OTT and out of context in my view... As you have vinyl collection, is it stuff you don't have digitally? or old favourites? so playing them could be good.... and the ritual is actually quite nice I think... makes you appreciate the music more.

I'd suggest the seperate phono stage pre-amp route. Also I'd say trade the old Rega 2 in for a new/better version with new arm and cartridge. A dealer demo will settle that question quite easily....

Any dirty records get them professional cleaned and store the actually record in poly inner sleeves... not the paper rubbish they probably came in.

It's still a very nice enjoyable way to relax and enjoy music, has sound that often just seems right and natural in an otherwise digital world..... No beard here.....
 
jpaul said:
Kitfit I use what I think is a similar brush carbon+polymide "2+2" but about 15 years old - I probably need to renew it - but it is the final flick to avoid leaving a line of dust on the record that always causes problems for me
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It's down to technique lol. Record on deck and spinning, place the brush across the record including the run out area, don't use any downward pressure more than you need to stop the brush from spinning as well, let the record do 4 or 5 revolutions, then move the brush across the record to the outside until it's off the record. If you do it like that there will be no line of dust other than the one on the brush. Just run your hand across the brush and even that line will be gone.
 
I love it that people are getting into vinyl again, I've picked up so many cd's for pennies :D Vinyl is just too much Hassle compared to just putting a cd on or playing a lossless audio file, vinyl also wears so every time you play it the sound produced isn't quite as good as the last time you played it so friends of mine avoid playing there discs as often as they would like.
 
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