Tom Sweetnam
Platinum Member
This month's edition of The Absolute Sound reports that more than one million turntables were sold in the US last year. Not bad for a technology that was supposed to have died back in the late 80's. Seven hundred thousand were consumer level turntables (say $500 or less), and three hundred thousand were audiophile grade turntables that go from $1000 to the sky is the limit.
My setup is pretty basic but it sounds sweet as can be. I have a Riga turntable with an Ortophon cartridge connected to a 26 year old Adcom GFP 565 preamp (with the best phono stage ever put in a solid state preamp), a 1980's vintage solid state 200 watt Parasound amp, and a very nice set of Klipsch studio monitors. Records sound sweet and musical with a surprising level of warmth for a solid state setup.
I'd like to go tube, but the stuff I want has price tags that're crazy.
Interest in the vinyl art is getting so keen, that many companies are now manufacturing very high quality record pressings these days. They're expensive, but then quality always is.
My setup is pretty basic but it sounds sweet as can be. I have a Riga turntable with an Ortophon cartridge connected to a 26 year old Adcom GFP 565 preamp (with the best phono stage ever put in a solid state preamp), a 1980's vintage solid state 200 watt Parasound amp, and a very nice set of Klipsch studio monitors. Records sound sweet and musical with a surprising level of warmth for a solid state setup.
I'd like to go tube, but the stuff I want has price tags that're crazy.
Interest in the vinyl art is getting so keen, that many companies are now manufacturing very high quality record pressings these days. They're expensive, but then quality always is.
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