A decent vinyl turntable

Napoleon Plural

I am disgruntled with digital music, though from an iPod point of view, I'm sure it has its uses. Can anyone recommend a decent vinyl turntable I could hook up to an amp and speakers? Not a £1,000 job, more up to £200. Most reviews tend to talk about how good they are at downloading your vinyl onto MP3s which is nice but not my priority.

Napoleon Plural

Hmm, looks like this baby:

http://whathifi.com/Review/Pro-Ject-Genie-3/UserReviews/

darenhat

I never knew the true ins and outs of turntables. I'm not sure if the secret to the best fidelity lies in the stylus, the electronics, or the speakers or what.

I will contribute this: A few months back I picked up a Sony turntable (it was free with some credit card points I had acquired - approx. value = $150). The unit is designed to plug into a computer USB port for digitizing the tracks, but it also comes with outlets to connect to an amplifier if you wish. My primary purpose was to rip some old records of mine to my MP3 player, and to do so, the unit was packaged with some software called Soundforge. I'm no high-class audiophile expert, but I have to say that the results are really impressive. I'm hearing notes in me digitized files that I couldn't hear when just playing the records. I don't know wether to attribute the clarity to the capabilities of the hardware or the software, though. I'm guessing that the software would be helpless without the hardware's ability to read the vinyl properly.

Loeffelholz

I've got an old Kenwood turntable I bought whilst in the USAF in Spain in 1981...and it still works great. It's a 'direct drive' vs 'belt drive;' perhaps that's why. No digital options...it just plays records. I'm on my 3rd stylus---though admittedly I don't use it much anymore, there are times when only old-school analog will do B-)