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My turntable died recently.In May it would`ve been 15 years old just wondering how many of you use a turntable?(I know likeaghost does 
)Thats a pretty good lifespan for a turntable, still haven’t replace mine that was crushed years ago
Just never got around to replacing it, I really should cause I have tons of great vinyl :aliensmile:Are you gonna replace yours
If I could find a place that sells turntables
I bought the old one from the Sony Store which probably no longer sells them I got about 80-90 records that I would like to listen to.Still using my trusty Harman Kardon ST-7 very often, bought it ridiculously cheap from a hi-fi freak about 15 years ago, he sold it because he thought vinyl was inferior to cd’s
, must have been one of the best investments of my life 
(and there’s still a Technics turntable somewhere in the cellar as a back-up…. 
)i found a Stanton str8-20 under the christmas tree with my name on it and remembered why my family rules. Then it was broken, or rather not fully put together by me
, being my thrist for fully reading instruction manuels and all, but now i’m spinning and winning with scrtching power to boot. My reciever is dying which has caused such great distortion on recordings that my mix tape career is on hold, more on that sometime, maybe, i did just buy a new walkman, but back to record players, i’ve had terrible luck in the past, even forgetting about my lost mind. First turntable ever, Dukes of Hazard boxed tini little thing i’d spin kids inncorporated and other childerens genre type silliness, till i opened my ears to my dad’s record collection; second record player was a nice one, but it was broken by my mom while she was cleaning my room at home while i was living wiht my girlfriend at the time in State College, PA. I bought my third record player while working at the goodwill there in state college, such an funny name for a town, anyway, this record player was portable like my dukes of hazard kids model, but it was more elemtary school music class or church youth group type deal, i think a church donated them to goodwill, but we had bunches of them and every employee bought one and we marked one for store use, being we had crates of vinyl there in the basement and time to rock out to tunes wihile "processing" donations, again, way off base, so i’m in state college with my cool girlfriend and nice sounding mono turnable, but things go south with the girl, as usual, she leaves me for a sugged outdoors, although that story line doesn’t officially play out until after i’m kicked out of our place, which was her’s first so i didn’t mind leaving and in a wierd likeaghost way it was on good terms, i love all people, and so i left my record player there knowing how Erin liked it so and knowing i had my record player at home to retreat to as usual. I get home and run to my room to feed my turntable the new vinyl that i accumulated at goodwill, and alas it was broken. Now i’m smiling with a working record player but for a while it was sad daze, i need new tapes and a mixer so me and lungz can get our hip hop proget off the ground, comedy.SG, i hope you are able to move on to a new turntable, 15 years is a long time, having a turntable is fun, the warmth, a blamket which i need to hide under right now, long night, and it’s morning which is my night, but i can’t sleep it’s so darn bright out, i’m rambling and ruining a prefectly good thread about turntables, i love my turntable…
I’ve just opened a beer to toast your turntable and wish it god speed into the afterlife.
The last years I’ve been buying more and more vinyl, now I never buy a cd if the album is available on vinyl, and most good albums are available on vinyl.
I’m playing my darlings on a Rega turntable with a Ortofon pickup.
I prefer vinyl because of the sound, it feels warmer and richer compared to a cd.
The covers are prettier and very often way cooler than the stupid cd inlay cards.
I like the "vinyl ritual," having to treat them very nice, plus that you have to get up and flip the record halfway through.
I hope you will find a new one very soon!
I’m not sure about Canada, but the US prizes on turntables is about half of the prize here in Noway, so finding a quality turntable at a reasonable prize shouldn’t be too hard.When I get a chance to go to the vinyl store downtown I`ll ask them if they know where I can get a new one.I don`t want one from a flea market cuz it`ll probably break not long after.I also have to have the cash for it too
so maybe my birthday in June I`ll have the money for it or I could just forget it I don`t like having 80-90 records piled up in my closet that I can`t play 
My first turntable was a Radio Shack one I got when I was 3 or 4;that died around 1987 or 88.This one was only my 2nd turntable plus I had the same needle for those 15 years.
I did a 19 page essay in high school on cd`s vs vinyl;I used a Neil Young interview where he talks about his hate of cd`s and how vinyl rules
he said that back in the 60`s and 70`s people played vinyl to death nowadays people don`t spend that much time listening to cd`s.Of course cd`s was just an RIAA stragedy to get people to spend double the cash on music.The same needles for 15 years, were they made of titanium?
I was at a lecture once where a professor pointed out that vinyls, if handled and stored properly, outlasts cd’s. And that they’re more durable. If you’re unlucky and get a bad scratch on a cd, this will make it unreadable. But a lp will play(nicely) with some pretty bad scratches and cuts if you got the right gear.
As I’ve written before on fs, Hellacopters are notorious in their hate of the cd. a lot of songs are only released on vinyl.Can’t say I buy lots of vinyls these days, but I still have a pile of them that I listen to regularly so I definitely need a turntable. Fortunately my 13-or-maybe-14-year-old Philips turntable is still alive and kicking. Would be sweet to have a really high quality player but I’m always too damn lazy and/or poor to replace the old one before it passes on.. and if I did that I got a hunch that my 14" tv from the same era would feel lost and commit suicide which perhaps would not be too much to weep over but in a silly hippie way I feel cool to be the only one I know that has a tv w/o remote control.
"maxini" wrote:and if I did that I got a hunch that my 14" tv from the same era would feel lost and commit suicide which perhaps would not be too much to weep over but in a silly hippie way I feel cool to be the only one I know that has a tv w/o remote control.
right on maxini!"Robert" wrote:The same needles for 15 years, were they made of titanium?Yeah,my old radio shack one needed the needle changed a few times but this Sony one never needed to be changed
not sure what it`s made of
I have records that are over 30 years old with hardly a scratch,I doubt cd`s will last that long no matter how well you take care of them.It`s just a way to get you to buy the cd again;another RIAA trick
To add to the stereo trouble,my reciever`s headphone jack is shorted out in the left channel,all it does is static so I have to use the headphones jack in my tape deck.sorry to hear SG ofyour loss, hope you can replace it with a good one soon.
I have an average record player (Akai) which is…. let me think … 18 years old. still alive because I hardly ever used it within the last 12 or 14 years
…on one hand I really love my vinyl, think vinyls look cool etc, but playing them is sooo unconvenient
and also I’m afraid I’d wear the vinyls out with playing, and they’re hard to replace, so I did what they wanted me to & also bought those CD’s 
Cd`s are easier to travel with for sure
of course you could tape your records on a CDR if you have a burner I never really found out how to rip a vinyl, or better, I have an idea how it goes, but it’s terribly unhandy, having to separate the tracks manually etc.
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