The best turntable you can buy
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Vinyl is seeing a resurgence all over the place, and if you’re curious about which of the many turntables available are the best to start your budding collection with, we have a pick for you. A good turntable is simple to use, has great sound, and can be easily repaired when parts wear out. Don’t go the big box cheap route and get something that will last.
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I’ve watched all the reviews on this turntable. DO NOT BUY this cheap copy of a Technics SL-1200. The only copy to buy is the Pioneer PLX-1000. The Audiotechnica has some real issues. It has a much lighter plastic plinth (body) that transfers noise from vibrations, and give a more hollow sound. The platter is a very thin aluminum that can cause a ringing noise. The anti-skating either doesn’t work out of the box, or fails over time. The warnings are all over YouTube. Steve Guttenberg the Audiophiliac and many others highly recommend the Pioneer if you want a Technics SL-1200 clone for around $699. The extra cash is worth it if you want to preserve the condition of your records, and want really good sound quality. Here you get what you pay for.
why is this so stretch aspect
It’s not that great though, a Rega P1 would be better.
all u have to do is modify it a little bit..better needle..good slipmat
You act like hooking a turntable up to a full stereo system is a secondary solution or an afterthought… Turntables are meant to be hooked up to a stereos! … Hooking it up to a pair of powered speakers is only a recent thing that rarely existed in the past. Turntables are a component of a stereo system first! And, ok, maybe you hook them up to a pair of powered speakers second, if you can’t afford or don’t want a stereo system. That’s the turntable’s true purpose and primary design intent.
or you can get a Technics SL-1200 MK2
They have to put auto return or at least auto stop on that turntable „, then it would be perfect…I don’t want to play chase the needle all the time…now that more folks are getting back into vinyl I am sure the more higher quality automatic tables are right around the corner…or a new linear tracking turntable…I had one„,wish I still did„,it took great care of my vinyl collection…
Entry level that looks expensive. Even Audio Technica has moved away from the professional styled turntables.
1210 if your serious
This video seems like an advertisemnt for Audio Technica. You may be very surprised at what Best Buy’s TT’s for $99.00 can sound like. In fact, I dare say that a manual TT is not for a beginner who may not like to have to catch the tonearm at the end of the play. A beginner should not spend $300.00 on a TT. A simple automatic TT will do and the sound will be good, even if not excellent. Most beginners would be very happy with such TT’s. That’s my view, anyway.
These are the bare minimum
Do yourself a favor
Save more money and buy a better model
Correction. A CD has twice the dynamic range of an LP.
I have this turntable, only the all-black version. The connectors plug into the rear of the turntable. They’re not hardwired. Perhaps mine is a later, updated version. It’s an excellent turntable.
Linn Sondek LP12. Still THE standard for detail extraction and realism since 1974.
This model has now been discontinued. The Audio Technica LP140XP is the new replacement.
Vinyl does not offer better dynamic range at all. Get your facts straight. The advent of CDs was driven in audiophile circles by its markedly better dynamic range. If you liked Classical or Soundtracks Written for Film, the CD was almost always revelatory because of it ability to reproduce the real dynamics of the music. Music recorded digitally or carefully remastered digitally always sounds better than Vinyl. Because Classical music was always “shoehorned” on to a vinyl side with closer spaced grooves it usually had very poor dynamic range and pathetic bass response. CD’s were at last able to differentiate between the very low pianissmos to the crashing fortissimos of Classical. Any Telarc digitally recorded and mastered Classical CD will blow you away with their musical detail. Vinyl has to be carefully engineered and equalized to sound decent. The very best sounding Vinyl was engineered during the Disco Era with the 12″ Disco Single, be it 45 or 33, producing very high quality sound. Even those could be ruined quite easily by cheap poorly made playback equipment like the Crosley. CDs are never damaged during playback. The sound is the same from one playing to the next. Wear and tear is something I have never encountered in my 35 years of owning CDs. The only thing I actually miss about LPs is the large cover art with notes and lyrics that don’t require major magnification to read. A jump up in disc player quality from CD to Bluray or 4K can often make a good CD sound even better. Yes, you can play CDs on DVD, Bluray and 4k players through a good multichannel Hometheater AVR, subwoofer and speakers and it sounds glorious.
The best? No. The best mid range? Yes, in my opinion, but there is some bias as I own this tt.
Best turntable to waste your money.
Add a litte bit $$$ and take the Technics SL1200/1210 , much better than this awful ripoff thing…
That costs too much lol
Fluance
When i saw AT i was GONE
ever heard of the Bergmann Magne record player?
I’ve got the lp120x it’s really good for the price
The audio technica lp60x is also a great record player if you are first starting out
The amount of audio snobbery in this comment section is hilarious and disgusting.
You’re kidding, right? Maybe be best turntable for people who don’t want to properly get into vinyl.
Belt drive and straight tone arm best but hate looks of curved tone arms though may not effect sound quality
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Get the newer version of the at lp120 not the older version I have the older version with the defective anti skate. Although nice and solid not having any anti skate means some records will skip when they shouldn’t. I just replaced mine with a fluance RT 80 and it sounds phenomenal. But I miss my at lp120
I’ve got lots of CDs over 300 records with good prolect tt and I love and prefer lp to cd but most people don’t have very good system which if you do not interested in CDs anymore Lp more lifelike ..
Why pay more than this proven professional turntable? I‘m not awash with money but i bought this one with relative ease.
Ehhhh, the rumble is average and wow and flutter is average too on the AT-120. Get a vintage and you will not be disappointed unless you are spending $1000+