I'm trying to decide how much to spend on a turntable.
Yes, that never-used audio component that is all but extinct. I'm torn between buying something merely competent and something that was outstanding and may now be bought for a reasonable price (<$200).
I am going to digitize my album collection (which I haven't heard in a good ten years). But I'm struggling between my audiophile urges (long thought dead) and common sense. Common sense, on the one hand, tells me to what the cheapest turntable that will do an adequate job. But it also tells me that I shouldn't buy crap as one always regrets that. I suppose it comes down to how I define adequate. I don't really know that I could tell the difference between the Thorens turntables I'm looking at and a Technics.
How can I be suffering buyer's remorse before I've even bought the bloody thing?
Posted by artandscience at July 10, 2004 03:17 PMAll you need the turntable for is to turn at a constant speed: I'd put the investment in a good cartridge.
Posted by: paul at July 11, 2004 11:23 AM