Hifi system for playing vinyl

[BimboBob]

My system is wired into a small sonos box that sends the signal to my sonos system downstairs.

Means I can put a record on upstairs and fill the house with sound. Wife out permitting.

As far as starting out, pro-ject or rega with built in pre amp, get an amp, morantz are not bad for starting out, some speakers,and away you go.

Speaker size depends on size of room.

You should be able to get what you need for around a grand.

 

[Summerbuzz]

Listen before you buy if at all possible. Cheap stuff that works together well to your taste is much, much 'better' than expensive stuff that doesn't 'click' together, or do it for you.

 

[stonerblue]

Stir It Up Turntable Record Player Built in Amp USB - House of Marley UK

Stir It Up Turntable Record Player Built in Amp USB A classically designed turntable and category first for House of Marley. The STIR IT UP turntable is simple in form and rich in materials with natural bamboo details and a built-in pre-amp.

www.thehouseofmarley.co.uk

No idea if this is any good

 

[Chippy_boy]

Laws of Hifi. No324B (section F)

Bluetooth is always inferior to qood quality cables.

Laws of Hifi. No 1:

There is no such thing as "good quality cables" just "cables". Hifi buffs time and time again fail to discern any audible difference between the latest £1,000 esoteric nonsense cable and any old bit of copper wire. Why? Because there is none.

Laws of Hifi. No 2.

Hifi dealers make more margin on supposedly better sounding cables than they do on anything else. And guess what, they swear blind by them. Funny that.

 

[Bill Walker]

Laws of Hifi. No 1:

There is no such thing as "good quality cables" just "cables".

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You haven't seen my $2 Chinese ones

 

[Chippy_boy]

You haven't seen my $2 Chinese ones

Fair point. I was of course being flippant. So long as they are mechanically OK, and the speaker cables are not like fine as a goat hair, then cables do make bugger-all difference.

And yet STILL, knowing this, I still find myself getting drawn in and suckered into paying stupid money for some WBT spade connectors at £85 for four. I am a moron.

 

[Chippy_boy]

OP: No idea of your budget, but if you wanted something that would be really very good indeed, then I'd go for one of these:

Cambridge Audio Alva TT Direct Drive Turntable with Bluetooth aptX HD

Bluetooth aptX HD - Wireless Hi-Res streaming. Place the turntable anywhere.Built-In Phonostage - No need for extra boxes. Keep your setup simple.Direct Drive - Consistent drive speed with pitch-perfect audio reproduction.Pre-installed High Output MC Cartridge - Pristine musical detail. No...

www.cambridgeaudio.com

And a pair of these:

LSX II

Elevate your audio experience with the KEF LSX II active wireless speaker system. Explore our premium sound technology, innovative features, and stylish design.

uk.kef.com

Hardly any wires and that combo would sound *fabulous*, especially for classical music.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

Fair point. I was of course being flippant. So long as they are mechanically OK, and the speaker cables are not like fine as a goat hair, then cables do make bugger-all difference.

And yet STILL, knowing this, I still find myself getting drawn in and suckered into paying stupid money for some WBT spade connectors at £85 for four. I am a moron.

I always used to replace the crappy patch cables with ones from tandy that cost about 8 quid and could hear the difference. Between those and 80 quid cables no difference at all.

 

[Chippy_boy]

I always used to replace the crappy patch cables with ones from tandy that cost about 8 quid and SWORE I could hear the difference.

Fixed that for ya ;-)

Seriously, there's no actual physics which might indicate that one cable might sound different from another one either. Electrical propagation of a signal down a cable is in an entirely different domain to the very limited capabilities of human hearing. Claims that people can hear a difference therefore should be met with scepticism, in just the same way as you'd be sceptical if someone said they can see X-rays or hear 50 KHz signals. You'd rightly think that was pretty bloody unlikely and need to see some hard evidence that this was true before believing it.

And so it is with cables. There's no reason to assume they sound different (there is of course lots of quack science from people with bugger-all scientific understanding, and also quack science from con-artist manufacturers who should know better.) But when it comes to actually testing if people can tell the difference in double-blind testing, invariably they cannot.

But I agree, spending a fiver or so on a pair of interconnects in the hope they may be soldered properly, is probably not a bad idea.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Stir It Up Turntable Record Player Built in Amp USB - House of Marley UK

Stir It Up Turntable Record Player Built in Amp USB A classically designed turntable and category first for House of Marley. The STIR IT UP turntable is simple in form and rich in materials with natural bamboo details and a built-in pre-amp.

www.thehouseofmarley.co.uk

No idea if this is any good

Sadly compared to Rega or even Project gear it’s dreadful.