$2,000 for vinyl setup??!
i have a good friend who rescues RTR decks, repairs them, restores them, aligns them, etc. Nothing to spend $500-$700 on a RTR needing serious servicing. He gets great results! But he spends a mint in blank tape or rare recorded tapes.
I spent $75 on a nice Denon DP52F TT, restored it. Spent $75 on a Shure M97HE cartridge and put a nude Black Diamond Stylus in it, $42.
I brought both to him, aligned the cartridge and set him up. I brought some nice thrift store LPs I had.
Head to Head, he was amazed by the sound quality he was getting from that phono setup through his system.
Now, he makes tapes from vinyl for long term listening on RTR.
Admittedly, RTR with dbx noise reduction, his playback is of tremendously good SQ.
But RTR is WAY expensive! And $2,000 for a very good phono system???? Sure, if you have more money than brains....
i have a good friend who rescues RTR decks, repairs them, restores them, aligns them, etc. Nothing to spend $500-$700 on a RTR needing serious servicing. He gets great results! But he spends a mint in blank tape or rare recorded tapes.
I spent $75 on a nice Denon DP52F TT, restored it. Spent $75 on a Shure M97HE cartridge and put a nude Black Diamond Stylus in it, $42.
I brought both to him, aligned the cartridge and set him up. I brought some nice thrift store LPs I had.
Head to Head, he was amazed by the sound quality he was getting from that phono setup through his system.
Now, he makes tapes from vinyl for long term listening on RTR.
Admittedly, RTR with dbx noise reduction, his playback is of tremendously good SQ.
But RTR is WAY expensive! And $2,000 for a very good phono system???? Sure, if you have more money than brains....