Adding a turntable to a fairly high end HiFi system: Help me

[TorqueDirty]

Thanks again guys.

This is very much turning in to a heart vs head thing. Head says I'd be mad to go down the vinly route and should look at a decent streaming solution.

Heart says - I want on of these in my life:-

http://www.acoustic-solid.com/english/solid_111_me...

Pretty impressive for abut £1500 with arm and cartridge. And it also doubles up as art / mechanical sculpture!

Mind you, points also taken about looking after vinyl and about setting up a deck. I am not expert in either, although I do have direct experience of how to totally fk up a good LP whilst trying to clean it - brother's favourite album that I was trying to listen to on his starter system way back when)

Lots to ponder but did fall off my chair when I saw the price of FLAC album downloads, but maybe I don't know where to look - or even what to look for to be honest.

TD

[deeen]

Bit of budget creep there ?!?!

[RichB]

TorqueDirty said:

Heart says - I want on of these in my life:-

http://www.acoustic-solid.com/english/solid_111_me...

Beautiful looking piece of kit.

What music are you into?

[TorqueDirty]

deeen said:

Bit of budget creep there ?!?!

I know!! Completely unjustifiable - I could buy a reasonably decent project motorbike for that, or a smoker barge (which I have always wanted to try my luck at). Tis a lovely looking thing though.

TD

[TorqueDirty]

RichB said:

What music are you into?

Pretty eclectic really. Collection goes all the way from Vivaldi to Van Halen, but I find myself listening to more delicate acoustic stuff with great vocals more than anything else. I also find that the quality of the recording / mastering determines which CD I put on much of the time. I have music that I really like but that is badly mastered and it never gets played as it just winds me up.

TD

[Crackie]

NicD said:

Crackie said:

Why do you want as high bit rate as possible ?

If I am paying for HiRes, I want it to be HiRes and not 16 bit/CD quality

I get that you're trying to source the HiRes files rather than lowly old CD quality 16 bit; I was just curious about your reason(s) for wanting them ? Do you think 16/44.1 limits audio playback in some way and that file formats with bigger numbers in them must be better ?

In the end..... if you believe that higher bitrates and sampling frequencies make an audible improvement then these bigger files will probably sound better to you. That's what matters in the end I suppose...........

Edited by Crackie on Wednesday 13th May 08:29

[dobly]

Not seen that turntable before - it looks very much like my Michell Engineering Gyro SE, but changed just enough so that the patent lawyers won't be getting a feed!

[Baz Tench]

There is an interesting six turntable group test in this months 'Hifi Choice' magazine.

They are all around the £200-300 price point, and one of them is similar in design to the £1500 one above.

It's called the Pro-Ject RPM1Carbon, and it got favourable reviews.

Here it is:

[Rick101]

I wasn't impressed with the Project stuff. Seemed a bit gimmicky and toy like compared the the proper hifi equipment.

[deeen]

Making it more complicated doesn't necessarily add to the music (cf. Rega)

[Brian Trizers]

Those multi-piece turntables always look fantastic, but how do you keep the dust off them? Some seem to have the option of a huge, boxy Perspex cover, but you have to put that somewhere else while it's playing. My black Linn may be less striking but its self-propping lid is a whole lot more practical.

[Riff Raff]

Brian Trizers said:

Those multi-piece turntables always look fantastic, but how do you keep the dust off them? Some seem to have the option of a huge, boxy Perspex cover, but you have to put that somewhere else while it's playing. My black Linn may be less striking but its self-propping lid is a whole lot more practical.

I haven't had a turntable with a lid for about 15 years. I can't say it's much of an issue TBH.

[Baz Tench]

deeen said:

Making it more complicated doesn't necessarily add to the music (cf. Rega)

I agree, but I was just highlighting the fact that a similar design is available to the lovely aluminium item mentioned earlier, for the budget the OP originally mentioned. It also held its own performance-wise in the group-test (a Rega is in the mix too btw).

I don't want to give too much away in case the OP wants to have a read for himself.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

I'm very happy with the performance of my Audio Technica LP-120 since I added it. It's not very high end, £230 is, but is a lookalike of the much admired Technics SL1200 and has real 70s old school charm together with good performance and USB digital transfer capability.

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Edited by TwigtheWonderkid on Tuesday 19th May 10:41