I have the Pioneer PL530
it was my first turntable. Sort of.
Interesting how I came to own it.
After looking for TT’s in thrift stores for something that looked of decent quality, and not finding anything, and not knowing much about TT’s at the time, I just about gave up. Then one day, while walking to my car at the apartment complex I lived in, I found a PL530 thrown in the garbage by someone.
I took it out, cleaned it up. It appeared to work. It was missing a cart and counterweight. Found the counterweight on eBay and ordered an entry Grado cart. It then sat for several years after that since I lacked the resources to buy a phono pre, then one day I decided to buy an entry Music Hall phono pre unit.
I wasn’t blown away compared to my Digital set up, so I let it sit. Several more years past and I decided to try vinyl again. This time I bought a VPI scout with a dynavector 20x2L and dynavector phono pre. Mkiii I do believe. Now I was starting to get all the hubbub. I then plugged the Pioneer into the Dynavector phono pre, and while it wasn’t quite as good as the VPI (owing to the cart mostly) I was well impressed.
Now it sports a Nagaoka MP200 and still feeds the dynavector pho on pre in a side system.
it was my first turntable. Sort of.
Interesting how I came to own it.
After looking for TT’s in thrift stores for something that looked of decent quality, and not finding anything, and not knowing much about TT’s at the time, I just about gave up. Then one day, while walking to my car at the apartment complex I lived in, I found a PL530 thrown in the garbage by someone.
I took it out, cleaned it up. It appeared to work. It was missing a cart and counterweight. Found the counterweight on eBay and ordered an entry Grado cart. It then sat for several years after that since I lacked the resources to buy a phono pre, then one day I decided to buy an entry Music Hall phono pre unit.
I wasn’t blown away compared to my Digital set up, so I let it sit. Several more years past and I decided to try vinyl again. This time I bought a VPI scout with a dynavector 20x2L and dynavector phono pre. Mkiii I do believe. Now I was starting to get all the hubbub. I then plugged the Pioneer into the Dynavector phono pre, and while it wasn’t quite as good as the VPI (owing to the cart mostly) I was well impressed.
Now it sports a Nagaoka MP200 and still feeds the dynavector pho on pre in a side system.