Re: RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: needs

["Anthony D'Costa" <dcosta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I recommend a Linn turntable (basik), good value for a tidy sum!  I think
at 450, which I have been eyeing it for some years!  I do have Linn
speakers (lowest end) though and they are excellent:)

Anthony
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On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Max Sawicky wrote:

>
> Depends on how fussy you are.  I investigated buying
> a turntable in hopes of transferring our records to
> CD's.  You can find them at Circuit City and Best
> Buy for a hundred bucks or so.  Not many choices,
> but not hard to find a couple.
>
> mbs
>
> We should remember the imposed obsolescence part of the story. Nowadays, my
> wife's and my  very large LP collection is largely useless unless we go out
> and buy a new turn-table, which are currently quite expensive (and
> sometimes hard to find). I don't have good enough ears to agree with Eric
> Clapton that CDs are anathema (since they don't sound good) and I'm not
> that worried about the difficulty of getting good cover art into such a
> small box, so besides the obsolesce part, they seem pretty good. No-one
> could ever play an LP in a car.
>
> Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
>
>