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Martin Brown wrote:
Likewise. A Thorens TD150. But nearer 50 years ago here.

I confess that although I still have my old turntable I don't normally
play vinyl any more. I did fire it up a year or two ago and I had
forgotten just how tetchy about vibrations, earthing and magnetic
shielding the low signal levels of a magnetic pickup actually are.

The trick is to fit the pre-amp to the deck and feed out of that at normal
line level.

It took several goes to get the thing going properly without obtrusive
hum and clicks from the CH and boiler were unavoidable. Having to turn
the disk over is surprisingly inconvenient after CDs or digital media.
One 32MB USB memory stick can hold around 50 albums at CD quality (or
many more depending on how much lossy compression you can live with).

When at home I don't mind selecting what I want to listen to off the shelf.

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