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What's the cost of an entry level vinyl setup?

I'm just curious how much it would cost to get the equipment required to make vinyl worth listening to. I know players are available for cheap, but would anticipate the sound quality to be the same.

What would be your recommendation to go with a system worth about $5,000 in total? Is there a significant advantage to vinyl at this level? I've heard vinyl on high enough equipment to know that at it's best it's better than digital, but am not sure what it would cost for the average joe to get a quality sound.
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mapman
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I'm with THom and T_Bone.

I have a vintage Dual 1264 with vintage Goldring cart and Yamaha cr-420 vintage receiver that sounds way more than just respectable.

The same pieces bought used today should only cost a few hundred if you can find them.
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Well, if it truly costs that much ( I do not think so), so much for a vinyl revolution in that few will ever see any benefit.

I still believe a lot of the vinyl revolution to whatever extent it exists has to do with the fact that used records can be had for cheap or that people already have a lot of records that they want to play but do not want to spend a lot of money. It has always been the case that low end record players have outnumbered high end turntable systems by a huge margin and that will never change.
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