Their are alot of great turntables out there. They are not excellent or fantastic but great.
I noticed Sonos is providing a turntable made by Pro-ject for their wireless systems.
I use Sonos for ambient music around my house. They provide an excellent product - their speaker designs are very good. Everything I come across is positive about the Pro-ject line of turntable (cost effective). Good luck and spend some time to find what you need.
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What do do you think of the new Rega Planar 6? It’s getting great reviews. I now have a 25 year old original Well Tempered Turntable with a Dynavector 10x5 cartridge. I’m thinking of replacing it with the Rega and either moving the cartridge or buying a new Dynavector 20x (depending how my 10x needle looks When it’s examined). My other equipment: Audio Research amp, preamp and phono stage, Naim Unitiserve server, Aurilac Vega DAC, KEF Reference 5 speakers. I don’t play records that much so I don’t want to spend a huge amount on a new turntable. My dealer highly recommends the Rega Planar 6.
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Talk to Dave at VinylNirvana.com -- he does amazing work with remanufactured, vintage Thorens turntables, some within your budget. However as others have pointed out, a phono stage is another matter. But check out the Audigon thread on the iPhono. I have no experience with it but the user comments were interesting. |
How about new everything $3000??? |
Wow, what great suggestions. Leaning toward...
Marantz TT15s- Open box $1250
Lehmann black cube statement $500
Might be a nice place to start??? |
Btw - nice thing about an older VPI is that you can gradually upgrade the parts and end up with a really stellar turntable (and a nice analog rabbit hole to fall into!). The Aries TT's are great for that. |
oops -- once again I forgot to refresh the page before posting a response. Sorry if i'm being redundant.
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the trouble is you'll need a good phono stage to do justice to whatever you put together with the turntable. all of it can be done used for better value (except maybe the cartridge), but $3000 maybe a more reasonable target to get an analog front end into your system.
The Marantz TT15s gets high praise from people whose opinion I trust. It's actually a rebadged Clearaudio TT and retails for 1500. used ones on eBay are about $1k often with good carts. |
I've owned at least a hundred TT's for an tricked out Linn LP-12 to a AR-xa ..
Right now I am listening to a Pioneer PLX-1000 with a Soundsmith Ottelo
cartridge at a total cost of 1k + tax .
And yes , it IS great . It was very good but a 700 $ Project DS-2 Phono
pre-amp made it great .
Read The Stereophile review of the PLX-1000, it is spot on !
People who have have never heard one , much less own one , will tell you
it is Chinese junk . They lie .
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I'll second the HW-19 especially the mk iii or mk iv
easy to take care of and fix if needed
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Thanks @jsm71 I'll look into the Marantz TT as well. |
Thanks everybody for your time and suggestions. I'm looking into your suggestions. The Technics is old school, I like that a lot. Music Hall 9.3 looks very good as well. I'll keep my eyes to the used turntables to see if I can get a steal there!
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If you don’t want to buy used, look for a well made value priced table with a good cartridge. For example the Marantz TT 15S1 can be had for $1,499 and it comes with a Clearaudio Virtuoso ($800) cartridge. Clearaudio also makes the turntable for Marantz. It’s solid. You have a number of options for a phono stage in the $500 range. Others can better provide advice for the phono stage. There’s your $2,000 spend and this would work well. |
Old VPI’s are a safe bet table (good design, and built to last), and can be found cheap. I got an HW-19 Mk.2 for $500, and an Aries 1 with TNT-3/4 platter and bearing for $700 total (I got lucky). Add a new Jelco or Audiomods arm ($500-$800), and cartridge of your choice, and boom---LP music! |
$2k? Maybe not off the shelf but you can certainly do what I did. Source a clean Garrard 401 for about $800. Make or buy a layered birch ply plinth and add a 12" Jelco 750 arm for $550. Optionally add an Audiosilente idler for $100. Add brass feet and sit table on solid level support and you will have a great table.
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Ive had a Music Hall 9.3 for a couple of years now. Bought when they first came out with the new model. It comes with preinstalled goldring erotica lx MC cartridge. I am thrilled with performance at $2395 new. Never seen one used here so I’m assuming other owners haven’t been trading up. |
To be blunt, NO. A GREAT turntable is the combination of a lot of well executed engineering, which doesn't come cheap.
There are many good to very good turntables for under $2K, however. More than ever before in my estimation. You can probably find something used that retails for $3K or more for under $2K, so my advice is to do your research and be patient for the deal to happen. Clearaudio, VPI, and many others are good brands to focus on. I owned a Clearaudio Emotion for a while and was very impressed with the sound. My local Craigslist has one for $1K, so there are some incredible deals out there if you look carefully. |
a little over but a great sounding system,
technics sl 1200gr
lehmann black cube statement
orotfon quintet bronze |
