Hey from France !
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Smaug
Super Member
Bonjour! (I won't pretend to know more French than that, hehehe)
Welcome.
Your all-in-one system breaking down is actually a blessing in disguise. Those tend to have very heavy weight on the tone arm, which causes your records to wear out faster. Not only that, but they don't sound that great.
For an affordable but good-sounding turntable, check out the Audio Technica AT60 ($100) or AT120. ($250)
The AT60 is automatic, 33 or 45 RPM, internal or bypass pre-amp, and belt-driven.
The AT120 is manual, 33, 45, or 78 RPM, internal or bypass pre-amp, and direct-drive. They both have a USB output and software included, so you can rip your records to MP3 or whatever.
If money is tight and you don't have a proper amplifier or receiver/amplifier, you can hook up the output of the above turntables to amplified computer speakers, and it will sound decent. (probably better than your all-in-one) If you don't have them yet, get some with a subwoofer, so you don't miss out on all the low frequencies.
Later, when you get a proper amp and speakers for the turntable, the computer speakers can go with a computer.
I just re-discovered vinyl here myself. The records are sometimes given away or sold for very cheap here, so the problem is storage space and trying to make myself selective enough not to take anything.
You said you're into hard rock. It reminds me that I need to get some Scorpions records for my collection...
Again, Welcome!
Welcome.
Your all-in-one system breaking down is actually a blessing in disguise. Those tend to have very heavy weight on the tone arm, which causes your records to wear out faster. Not only that, but they don't sound that great.
For an affordable but good-sounding turntable, check out the Audio Technica AT60 ($100) or AT120. ($250)
The AT60 is automatic, 33 or 45 RPM, internal or bypass pre-amp, and belt-driven.
The AT120 is manual, 33, 45, or 78 RPM, internal or bypass pre-amp, and direct-drive. They both have a USB output and software included, so you can rip your records to MP3 or whatever.
If money is tight and you don't have a proper amplifier or receiver/amplifier, you can hook up the output of the above turntables to amplified computer speakers, and it will sound decent. (probably better than your all-in-one) If you don't have them yet, get some with a subwoofer, so you don't miss out on all the low frequencies.
Later, when you get a proper amp and speakers for the turntable, the computer speakers can go with a computer.
I just re-discovered vinyl here myself. The records are sometimes given away or sold for very cheap here, so the problem is storage space and trying to make myself selective enough not to take anything.
You said you're into hard rock. It reminds me that I need to get some Scorpions records for my collection...
Again, Welcome!
TheFrenchBob
New Member
Hi there, I just came back from school so I couldn't answer you on live lol.
This kind of turntables seems good to me but aren't for "experts" around me, they say the USB and all that breaks the analog "ambiance" of a turntable (???), the cheapest one I could find (avalaible in France of course) is the Pro-Ject Essential II for €259 or on some second hand websites, Marantz and Garrand tt's are alot present, is it good to start ?
About the amplifier, I've met my mother's uncle yesyerday and he is a former electronician, he said building a light bulb amp isn't so hard for him so we looked through internet and found a PDF doc where it is shown how to build an EL84 Push Pull 2x10W basic bulb amp, I'm studying ingeneering science and electronics at school, do you think it's worth it ?
Smaug
Super Member
I don't think so, especially if that USB output circuit can be bypassed. Kind of like a car having airbags doesn't ruin it.
YES! That's a great project. Learn good soldering technique, and have a working amp when you're done. It likely won't be a high-grade one with super low distortion or be energy efficient and such, but it will have the warm tube sound that people like.
Mystic
We're all born mad
Haha, thank you guys ! To be honest I didn't expect this forum to be international, that's great !
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