Turntable recommendations

[badgerade]

First of all, I'm not even sure if what I want to do is feasible!

My 7 year old son has been asking about the vinyl collection that belonged to my mum. However - I have nothing to play it on.

I've seen a few integrated turntable/speaker combos but I would imagine the quality is questionable?

On the other hand, I'm not keen to have to remortgage my house to listen to my mums old albums from the 60s

I have an AV amp already, wondering if there is a budget-ish turntable I can hook up to it? Or would that be too simple?

[rhinochopig]

For budget, anything from pro-ject at your price level. You can pick up an open box sale one from Richer or Super-fi quite often for £100-150. They're lovely bits of kit for the money.

[andy_s]

Pro-ject (Essential) or Rega (RP1); you'll need a small phono stage as well as I doubt your AV amp has this if recent - cheap ones are about £20, £50 is probably a sweet spot for those 'tables, something like a Musical Fidelity V90 (on sale at richersounds; no affiliation etc...) for example.

[Parabola]

100% agree with the two posts above.

[badgerade]

Thanks all, gives me something to go on.

So:

http://www.richersounds.com/product/turntables/pro...

&

http://www.richersounds.com/product/turntable-acce...

And then I assume I need two cables - one to connec the turntable to the phono 'thing' and then one to connect that to the AV Amp? (Obviously I am a proper hi-fi expert!)

[Magic919]

Yes.

[BrightYellowTVR]

I am looking to do something similar to play some 'handed down' vinyl, thanks for the the thread and links...

Cheers,
Jon

[Monty Python]

Or if you want an "all-in-one" solution:

http://www.richersounds.com/product/turntables/pro...

[badgerade]

Monty Python said:

Or if you want an "all-in-one" solution:

http://www.richersounds.com/product/turntables/pro...

Single unit appeals - how would that compare to the separate phono stage linked to above?

[Monty Python]

Pretty good from what I've heard, but you'll want to audition them both yourself rather than taking other peoples' word on it.

[mikef]

The Audio Technica LP60 is also well reviewed and the USB output let's you rip all your old vinyl to MP3s

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Audio-Technica-AT-LP60USB-...