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    Posted: May 08 2005 at 15:25
Okay, forget your high-end audiophile equipment for a moment and give me some suggestions on a reliable and decent-sounding turntable for under $100. My own is showing its age (1987, to be exact, and it wasn't top of the line then) but I've never had any complaints about its performance or sound.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 09 2005 at 06:18

Originally posted by James Lee James Lee wrote:

Okay, forget your high-end audiophile equipment for a moment and give me some suggestions on a reliable and decent-sounding turntable for under $100. My own is showing its age (1987, to be exact, and it wasn't top of the line then) but I've never had any complaints about its performance or sound.

What is it?
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Points: 6308 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 09 2005 at 13:29
It doesn't exists.

The only answer is Rega planar 3.
You can get it for about 400 dollars in occasion




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Points: 3525 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 09 2005 at 14:11
Originally posted by Karnevil9 Karnevil9 wrote:

Originally posted by James Lee James Lee wrote:

Okay, forget your high-end audiophile equipment for a moment and give me some suggestions on a reliable and decent-sounding turntable for under $100. My own is showing its age (1987, to be exact, and it wasn't top of the line then) but I've never had any complaints about its performance or sound.

What is it?

It's a Technics SL model. Complete with that cheesy grey-black and chrome futurist finish that 80s equipment makers seemed to love.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 09 2005 at 18:31
Originally posted by James Lee James Lee wrote:

Originally posted by Karnevil9 Karnevil9 wrote:

Originally posted by James Lee James Lee wrote:

Okay, forget your high-end audiophile equipment for a moment and give me some suggestions on a reliable and decent-sounding turntable for under $100. My own is showing its age (1987, to be exact, and it wasn't top of the line then) but I've never had any complaints about its performance or sound.

What is it?

It's a Technics SL model. Complete with that cheesy grey-black and chrome futurist finish that 80s equipment makers seemed to love.

Don't listern to you know who.Which SL model is it?There's a few 'SL110' maybe?



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Points: 3525 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 09 2005 at 22:39
It says "SL-J100". Not a lot of info about it on the net, but I picked it up on clearance at a music store the summer before my senior year of high school. I remember thay also had a Roland TR-808 for about the same price...that would have been a better investment!
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Doan larf:

Wallace ha' a awld Sherman tank Dual 1226 (wif Ortofon cartridge) ferever. (Ah tinks mebbe German-made?)

Ah'm happy wiv it.

(Wallace alser ha' two orther newer Duals - CS-515 ,an anither. Dems sound a bit sh*te due tae hum. Ah takes baith tae Dual "lab" an' him puts stethoscope onnit an' says "Is guid.(Yew compleat arse.) Sposs'd tae sound tha' way."

Frum den on, ah doan want noo new Duals.

But 1226 isa bit o' awlricht.

(Did ah say ah ha' a tin ear?)

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Points: 331 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 31 2005 at 13:48
Oh yeah -dems say Ortofon styli in perticoolar shouldnae be cleanit wiv alcohol-solution due tae th' binder used bein' noo too fond o' alcohol.

Wallace ha' dis same Ortofon fer cummin' on 8 yar now, an' ah washes needle mebbe 4 times a week wif 60% alcohol (onna camel hair brush).
No prob.
An' needle still luks prime unner a microjobbyscope.)
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