Good Vinyl Setup

What all the bits of a turntable do.

Good vinyl setup.

With so many speakers amplifiers and turntables available it can be tough to know how to even start to build a good setup to enjoy your record collection. We ve got you covered however. But our picks have this functionality built in so you don t need an external phono preamp. It s the entire experience.

Technics sl 1200 mk2 turntable 478 rega elex r amplifier 1 695 vienna acoustic bach grand speakers 1 799 total price. The best part of vinyl isn t the sound. This setup deserves modern tunes with an air of timelessness so try spinning the 180 gram vinyl copies of jack white s blunderbuss or toro y moi s underneath the pine. This is the only setup with passive speakers so we went big.

Then there s the phono stage a pre amplifier that takes the incredibly faint signal from the cartridge and ramps it up enough for the main amplifier to deal with. We breakdown the 4 essential components of every s. A vinyl set up has a few more components than you ll find in say a cd based system. If you re looking for a just add speakers turntable and your budget is high this is as good as they come.

To be clear a preamp is actually a necessary component of a vinyl listening setup. There s the turntable itself of course more on that in a bit. The setup works exactly the same as the cdj setup that we looked at first but you ll be playing vinyl records. If you already have records perfect.

Big fragile records real liner notes covers you want to frame and hang on your wall and of course the magical way the. The only downfall of this setup is that you ll have to buy expensive vinyl and find somewhere to store them all. For those new to vinyl we address the most common questions about putting together a vinyl stereo system. They re beautiful and unique with the.

The audio technica at lp120 usb is a great introductory turntable for any budding vinyl enthusiast with an easy setup that won t take all the fun out of spinning your records.