I am 65, retired from the audio business, very much still involved in audio, music listening, and the associated equipment. Three years ago, I sold my record collection of 6000 lps, my 2 high end vinyl playback systems, and went through a time of mourning. Mostly from giving up much music in my collection. Admittedly, vinyl sounds wonderful. There are many differences in vinyl playback gear, and I would not have been happy with a Pioneer PL 1000, not because it is a bad table, as it is good, but I had better, much better. The problem I had, it took me 4-5 minutes to get the record, remove the lid off the table, remove the record from it’s sleeve, clean the record, place it on the platter, clamp the record on the platter ( yes, I believe in clamping ), turn the table on, lower the arm / cartridge on the lp, and go flying to my listening seat. Not to mention getting the volume correct, for that particular recording, and my listening level mood.With all of that being done, I could not stand hearing the noise, rumble, clicks and pops, of the stylus, riding in the grooves, and it was simply inherent in the lp playing process. The higher definition a system is, the greater you hear all of this, as well as superior musical playback. And believe me, it was not my playback equipment. I just found myself listening less and less to vinyl. I would never suggest to anyone not to get into vinyl, as it still is a wonderful music playback medium, but, I wanted to give you another side to it. This, btw, was much more apparent on music that had many low passages of music. Good luck with your endeavors. Enjoy ! MrD.
Suggestions on turntable to pair with Rogue RP-7 > Finale 300B SET monos > Heresy 3's
So I've been kind of an asshole when it comes to vinyl, thinking it is too much hassle and the like. Lots of my friends have turntables but they have more patience than I do typically. I have a few terabytes of FLAC files and I'm perfectly happy running music into my system via a Benchmark DAC3 right now. This said, I was just gifted a decent record collection from my former boss, who passed away recently. His final wife called (he was on his 3rd), and said he wanted me to have all his LP's. I did not expect this, and I'm actually thinking of adding a turntable. The hardware is going to his daughter, so I don't get any options on that unless she says she doesn't want it. I don't really want to ask for more than I've been granted as I'm not THAT much of an asshole.
I'm thinking of relocating my setup to another room in the house, but it doesn't mention anything about phono in the RP-7 manual. I'm guessing I'll have to add a phono preamp, but have no experience with this so I'm hoping people have some good ideas to offer. I can probably swing a couple K towards all this, but I'm also willing to save for decent hardware.
Thanks in advance.
I'm thinking of relocating my setup to another room in the house, but it doesn't mention anything about phono in the RP-7 manual. I'm guessing I'll have to add a phono preamp, but have no experience with this so I'm hoping people have some good ideas to offer. I can probably swing a couple K towards all this, but I'm also willing to save for decent hardware.
Thanks in advance.
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