Record player recommendations

[dashDustin]

That U-turn site is tempting! I’d have to steal my records back from my brother …

No kidding. Damn. Youngest just discovered vinyl, too.

[robin3mj]

Just arrived. Setup was a snap.

Let it Be and Heart Like a Wheel both sound good at workday appropriate volumes. On to Jurassic 5, but really looking forward to turning it up nights/weekends.

[Mabouya]

really looking forward to turning it up nights/weekends.

Nice!

However, having a speaker on the same surface at the tt may be asking a bit too much of the vibration isolation system.

[robin3mj]

Nice!

However, having a speaker on the same surface at the tt may be asking a bit too much of the vibration isolation system.

Thanks. I’ll look into that. Both have pretty nice rubber feet, if that matters.

And on the weekend I bring my smaller similar speaker unit out from my office, pair it, and put it across the room to embiggen the sound even more.

[Mabouya]

I just did a "best turntable location" web search, and by coincidence this was the first hit:

https://uturnaudio.com/pages/turntable-positioning

[robin3mj]

I just did a "best turntable location" web search, and by coincidence this was the first hit:

https://uturnaudio.com/pages/turntable-positioning

I brought a little-used end table up from the basement and the speaker now has a new home. Thanks for the heads up.

Kids were a Friday night wreck and went to bed early so still no higher volume tunes. Tomorrow. They’re enamored with the damn thing though- may need to have my eldest pick out a record with her pocket money and participate. I’m assuming at least some Katy Perry or Taylor Swift is available in vinyl these days. (Thankfully she does love Tom Petty, Bonnie Raitt, Beatles, etc but she’s reaching the age to enjoy agency in liking music that is not pushed in her direction by lame old dad)

[72gmc]

TS is out on vinyl. Pretty sure I saw stories about returns because swifties weren’t playing the record at the correct speed.

[72gmc]

Aside from that, the last two new releases from Taylor sound to me like they should be on vinyl anyway.

[spopepro]

TS is out on vinyl. Pretty sure I saw stories about returns because swifties weren’t playing the record at the correct speed.

I’d love to laugh… but I listened to a bjork album 3 times at the wrong speed just assuming it was more experimental than usual…

[Mabouya]

I’d love to laugh… but I listened to a bjork album 3 times at the wrong speed just assuming it was more experimental than usual…

How many times did you listen to "Stairway to Heaven" backwards?

[holliscx]

Just arrived. Setup was a snap.[/IMG]

Does your TT have auto play and liftoff?

[robin3mj]

Does your TT have auto play and liftoff?

Sadly no. It has a lift lever but it’s not auto.

[Bob Ross]

I listened to a bjork album 3 times at the wrong speed just assuming it was more experimental than usual…

Back in the early 80s when I was just out of college and living in a house full of equally crazy folk, one of my housemates used to always listen to his 45 rpm single of Chaka Khan's "Ain't Nobody" at 33 rpm just because he preferred it that way.

It kinda sounded like a James Ingram slow jam. I dug it.