On Tuesday, 17 January 2017 12:41:49 UTC, 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.

Are they rubbish

lo-fi.

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

vinyl & mp3 are more than good enough to notice. Unless you record at 64k anyway.

Plastic decks are always better avoided IME. You can almost get away with it with enough care, but not really.


NT