On 17/01/2017 12:41, DerbyBorn wrote:
at one time with turntables we used to study specifications looking at Wow
and Flutter, Rumble and other characterisitics.

You can now buy a turntable for about £50 to output to a MP3 file.

Not worth it when you can just download an MP3.
I consider it just a legal to do so as recording the record.
Neither will get you into trouble.


Are they rubbish - or isn't the medium selective enough for the cheap
mechanical features to matter?


Rubbish, but probably better than the old SP25s people had.