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Let's talk about vinyl records friends.

What are you spinning?
Recent cops?
Whats your hardware?
Rarest record?
Debating about digital vs analog?

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Im looking into getting vinyls and I just wanna get a good afordable player. Any recs?

Affordable can range from $150-$400 mostly. Meme players (tried and tested newbie players) such as the AT-LP120 or the Pro-Ject Debut Carbon are great. They won't offer much room for upgrading, save for cartridges, but unless you have a lot of money to spend in the long run, that shouldn't affect you.

Audio Technica LP-120 (one in OP) is probably the best, although its about $400.

If you want a solid player, that's going to sound great, have all the features you need and not fuck up your records, its the one to get.

Just stay clear of Crosley, the LP-60, cheap Sony's and anything ION.

Thanks

Getting a pro-ject debut carbon tomorrow
Also getting audio engine A5s

On order:
At the Drive-In - Relationship of Commands
Death - Individual Thought Patterns

On preorder:
Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising
Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
Ensiferum - Ensiferum
Ensiferum - Iron
The Dear Hunter - All Is As All Should Be
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

Rarest stuff would be most of my Coheed and Cambria records, probably The Afterman box set I have. Not spinning anything tonight though because I'm pretty tired and don't wanna sit in my room. Setup is a Fluance RT80 with a Grado Blue cartridge and some active speakers I got off amazon for $100. Looking into getting a decent receiver and passive speakers in the future soonish.

It's an incredibly simple setup, but here's a video in case. youtube.com/watch?v=zV-edj6cNOY

I’m thinking about getting the Fluance RT-81

Would you recommend it? (Similar enough to the 80)
Also thanks for the heads up on the MBV reissues

They're both phenomenal tables honestly. The main difference between the two hardware wise is the different stylus/cartridge that's in each. The RT80 has a conical stylus which is a fair bit worse than the one in the RT81. If you're going to upgrade your stylus/cartridge in the near future I'd suggest just getting the RT80 because it's $50 less you're gonna be spending when you're gonna be upgrading the most worthwhile piece in your TT. Other than that the RT81 comes with a rubber slipmat which is great and I bought separately later and it's much better because my felt mat kept sticking to my records and crap would always get all over it. And yeah enjoy those MBV reissues, I'm really excited for them myself even though I just bought a bootleg a month or so ago but oh well. Didn't think they'd actually come out this soon.