Comments on: Inherited 100s of records, what kind of record player should I get? http://antiquerecordplayers.info/inherited-100s-of-records-what-kind-of-record-player-should-i-get.htm Wed, 23 May 2012 08:50:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Heli56 http://antiquerecordplayers.info/inherited-100s-of-records-what-kind-of-record-player-should-i-get.htm/comment-page-1#comment-3204 Heli56 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:19:25 +0000 http://antiquerecordplayers.info/inherited-100s-of-records-what-kind-of-record-player-should-i-get.htm#comment-3204 If the albums you have are of good sound quality you will likely want to keep them that way. The stylus or needle should ride in the record groove and do no damage. This means that the downward pressure of the stylus needs to be extremely low and the compliance (ability of the stylus to track the movement of the grooves) of the stylus need to high. Unfortunately there is not an all-in-one record player out there that has those characteristics. If you play the LP's on such a record player they will sound increasingly worse every time. My suggestion is to get an inexpensive DUAL turntable and a fairly inexpensive cartridge (contains the stylus). Maybe one of the 500 series Duals like the 508. These excellent turntables are belt drive and have fairly low mass tonearms that track well. The RCA outputs from the turntable can be plugged into most audio devices and adapters are available for inputting directly to the soundcard of your computer. Using free software from Audacity you can burn your own CD's. From brochure: http://www.dual-reference.com/Adverts/dcs508.jpg Here's one on eBay: http://cgi.ebay.com/Dual-CS-508-W-upgraded-gold-plated-RCA-jacks_W0QQitemZ280443771079QQcmdZViewItemQQptZVintage_Electronics_R2?hash=item414bc058c7 If the albums you have are of good sound quality you will likely want to keep them that way. The stylus or needle should ride in the record groove and do no damage. This means that the downward pressure of the stylus needs to be extremely low and the compliance (ability of the stylus to track the movement of the grooves) of the stylus need to high.
Unfortunately there is not an all-in-one record player out there that has those characteristics. If you play the LP’s on such a record player they will sound increasingly worse every time.
My suggestion is to get an inexpensive DUAL turntable and a fairly inexpensive cartridge (contains the stylus). Maybe one of the 500 series Duals like the 508. These excellent turntables are belt drive and have fairly low mass tonearms that track well. The RCA outputs from the turntable can be plugged into most audio devices and adapters are available for inputting directly to the soundcard of your computer. Using free software from Audacity you can burn your own CD’s.

From brochure:
http://www.dual-reference.com/Adverts/dcs508.jpg

Here’s one on eBay: http://cgi.ebay.com/Dual-CS-508-W-upgraded-gold-plated-RCA-jacks_W0QQitemZ280443771079QQcmdZViewItemQQptZVintage_Electronics_R2?hash=item414bc058c7

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