@br3098, LOL! turntables can be like girlfriends! Great analogy! :). The expensive ones are usually much higher maintenance. The cheap ones don't necessarily perform as well, but are probably more reliable!
@Elizabeth, great advice. Having grown up with turntables and the chore of changing records every 20 minutes, I welcomed digital as a new class of convenience. Now, although I ave my 1,000+ vinyl collection from the '70s, everything I have is digitized and on my server. I find it hard to go back to the old routine of picking the album side, cleaning it, putting it on the turntable, getting back up at the end of the side, and then trying to decide what the next side is that I will play. Compare that to controlling all playback from my listening chair for as long as I want. Oh, and don't forget the old problem of smoking some of Colorado's finest, falling asleep in your chair while the album is playing on the turntable and then waking up later with the needle still resting on the spinning album! For me, a good digital setup is so much more convenient!
@Elizabeth, great advice. Having grown up with turntables and the chore of changing records every 20 minutes, I welcomed digital as a new class of convenience. Now, although I ave my 1,000+ vinyl collection from the '70s, everything I have is digitized and on my server. I find it hard to go back to the old routine of picking the album side, cleaning it, putting it on the turntable, getting back up at the end of the side, and then trying to decide what the next side is that I will play. Compare that to controlling all playback from my listening chair for as long as I want. Oh, and don't forget the old problem of smoking some of Colorado's finest, falling asleep in your chair while the album is playing on the turntable and then waking up later with the needle still resting on the spinning album! For me, a good digital setup is so much more convenient!