Posted by manualblock [ 69.112.69.86 ] on April 22, 2005 at 07:45:26:
In Reply to: How much are your records worth? posted by Wayne Parham on April 22, 2005 at 06:31:36:
There is also the aspect of sound quality to consider. It is a pain to adjust and set-up a turntable properly; but using a good quality table and spending the time will equal the best music playback outside of a mastertape that it is possible to get at this time.
I will venture to say that unless you are into rap I would not even consider a turntable. The real benefit of vinyl comes from having good music properly recorded and that means mostly older albums of classical or jazz or even rock from the 60's or earlier that was recorded on tube mixing boards. And then you need a quality table/arm leading into many hundreds of dollars in cost and agravation. CD's or hardrive music playback is good enough now that it really renders vinyl useless to anyone except hardcore collectors and those willing to go through the hassle of finding older records or paying 25$ or more for re-released music. If I didn't have a room full of old albums I would ditch my vinyl in a heartbeat.
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