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to go with denon dm40+wharfedale diamond 9.1 (or tannoy mercury v1) which I am getting this xmas or if i can bag a heavily discounted one this black friday ..budget is kinda tight.. other half think what is wrong playing CD music in home cinema 😯
other half think what is wrong playing CD music in home cinema
To be fair, she's right, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.
If you want a turntable, buying new, the best budget options are probably Audio Technical LP120 or Pro-Ject Elemental/Essential. Remember, as well, that presuming you haven't had one before, you'll need some vinyl to play on it too, and that's often not particularly cheap.
To be fair, she's right, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.
Ah, beaten to it.
A cheap CD player will do a better job than a cheap record deck tracing a wiggly line pressed in plastic. Agree with pleaderwilliams you need to go to something like a Project or Rega to make it worthwhile.
You're unlikely to find a turntable with a built in phono amplifier (unless it's something cheap and nasty like the bush MT).
So you're going to need something like this,
I don't have one myself, but it would be my first choice if my amp didn't have a built-in phono stage.
As for turntable the likes of rega and project look tempting, but I'm sure that the stylus and cartridges for these are quite expensive to replace so I'd have a hunt around eBay or gumtree for an oldish model from Sanyo, thorens, technics or pioneer.
Make sure you buy some wee scales, accurate to 0.1 of a gramme as you will need to balance the tonearm of the turntable to make sure it's neither jumping at the least provocation or carving a new groove in your vinyl. Various videos on YouTube, etc.
And an extra pair of phono leads to go from the pre-amp to your denon 😀
Ditto, look on local gumtree. Technics 1210's are great but hold their price. Maybe an old Dual 505 if you're on a budget
Audio technica lp120 has built in pre amp... im looking at rega rp1 and project essential2 but needs preamp.. thanks for the reply lads..i think have to pay a visit to nearest richer sounds shop
That preamp looks like could fit the bill greatbeardeddone
There's a lot of phaff involved with playing vinyl, as in making sure the disks don't suffer undue wear, and are kept as clean as possible, so good carbon fibre dust brushes are essential, scales for getting the tracking weight spot on, gauges for getting the tracking angle correct, making sure the turntable is set up on a surface that is absolutely rigid, and if the floor is a wooden one, isolated from it so there's no undue influence from footsteps or low frequencies causing skipping it feedback, so a wall-mounted isolating table might well be required.
I'm perfectly familiar with all of those aspects of playing vinyl, been there, done that, and [i]literally[/i] spent hours getting a turntable with suspended platter set up properly so it was free from any fouling by the tone-arm cables underneath, and getting it all perfectly level, tracking set perfectly, tracking weight set perfectly...
My Logic DM101/Zeta/AudioTechnica MC cartridge is set on a table screwed to the old brick chimney-breast in my bedroom - believe me, it's bloody solid, all square steel tubing with a separate table set on adjustable spikes, as I've found a couple of times when I've stood up or turned around while bent over and caught my head on one corner... 😥
I'm fairly sure that these preamps come with their own power supply, but it's always best to make sure before you part with your cash. Caveat emptor. 😉