thinking of a return to vinyl....

nooshinjohn
nooshinjohn Posts: 25,595
edited March 2009 in Electronics
I am thinking of getting a turntable and breaking out some of my old vinyl. I have no need or desire to digitize them so was thinking of going with a higher end vintage table. B&O has come to the fore in my search and was looking for some feedback on this one...

http://cgi.ebay.com/BEOGRAM-8002-Tuntable-BANG-OLUFSEN-Working-Condition_W0QQitemZ360135036679QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item360135036679&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1234%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A1%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50


Let me know what you guys think of this one..:D
The Gear... Carver "Statement" Mono-blocks, Mcintosh C2300 Arcam AVR20, Oppo UDP-203 4K Blu-ray player, Sony XBR70x850B 4k, Polk Audio Legend L800 with height modules, L400 Center Channel Polk audio AB800 "in-wall" surrounds. Marantz MM7025 stereo amp. Simaudio Moon 680d DSD

“When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”— Thomas Jefferson
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  • thsmith
    thsmith Posts: 6,082
    edited February 2009
    No opinion but sure others here will but at that price might consider these.

    http://www.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?anlgtabl&1240967126&/VPI-HW-19-Junior
    http://www.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?anlgtabl&1240861452&/SOTA-moonbeam
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,136
    edited February 2009
    thsmith wrote: »
    No opinion but sure others here will but at that price might consider these.

    http://www.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?anlgtabl&1240967126&/VPI-HW-19-Junior
    http://www.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?anlgtabl&1240861452&/SOTA-moonbeam

    You can't go wrong with either of these two.
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,595
    edited February 2009
    thanks for the input guys... I must confess my fondness for tangenial tracking designs however, hense the b&o design.
    The Gear... Carver "Statement" Mono-blocks, Mcintosh C2300 Arcam AVR20, Oppo UDP-203 4K Blu-ray player, Sony XBR70x850B 4k, Polk Audio Legend L800 with height modules, L400 Center Channel Polk audio AB800 "in-wall" surrounds. Marantz MM7025 stereo amp. Simaudio Moon 680d DSD

    “When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”— Thomas Jefferson
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,279
    edited February 2009
    I used a TX-2 for about 5 or 6 years and was generally quite pleased with it.
    The "newer" b&o tts aren't terribly robustly built (although they work well). The biggest issue with b&o is the proprietary cartridge/mount. It allowed b&o to design their arms and cartridges as a unit (free of the compromises of 'generic' 1/2" mount compatible arms), presaging the later "P mount" system... but b&o stopped making and selling cartridges in 2002. New production cartridges are available from Soundsmith, but are quite expensive (even compared to the b&o prices in 2002).

    FWIW, my TX-2 has the entry-level MMC-4 (elliptical stylus) cartridge. It is not the most exciting sounding cartridge out there, but it's pleasant and capable. Folks tend to be quite polarized on linear-trackers, but the separation and definition of e.g., massed voices never failed to make me smile on the TX-2. It is also conspicuously free of inner-groove distortion (compared to any of the swingin' arm tts around here, even including the TT-15S that took the TX-2s place).

    TX-2L.jpg
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,136
    edited February 2009
    I would love to get my ears on that. ^^^
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  • SolidSqual
    SolidSqual Posts: 5,218
    edited February 2009
    Man, another vinyl thread? Is Club Polk have a Vinyl Revival?
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,279
    edited February 2009
    hearingimpared wrote: »
    I would love to get my ears on that. ^^^

    Best $7 I ever spent for a turntable.
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,595
    edited February 2009
    you got that for 7 bucks?
    The Gear... Carver "Statement" Mono-blocks, Mcintosh C2300 Arcam AVR20, Oppo UDP-203 4K Blu-ray player, Sony XBR70x850B 4k, Polk Audio Legend L800 with height modules, L400 Center Channel Polk audio AB800 "in-wall" surrounds. Marantz MM7025 stereo amp. Simaudio Moon 680d DSD

    “When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”— Thomas Jefferson
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,279
    edited March 2009
    10-4, at a church fleamarket in Littleton, MA. One a snowy May morning (!)
    Had to buy the MMC-4 from b&o ($113, delivered to my door from the Boston store).
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