D. Hugh Redelmeier via Talk said on Sat, 28 Jun 2025 10:05:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: Karen Lewellen via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org>
Still I desired moving from a turntable powered by my receiver to one with its own power source..and bought a Sony.
I don't know of any turntables that are powered by receivers. Maybe I misunderstand you.
I *think* she's referring to a "record player", which is an amp and possibly a radio physically including a turntable. These were common in the 1950's and 1960's before the hi-fi boom of the 1970's. As a consumer audio repairman, I can tell you these were a bitch to repair, because everything was crammed into one box. It was easy to remove the turntable, but you had to put it back in to do every diagnostic test. With the (IMHO silly) re-emergence of vinyl records, there are brand new record players being manufactured today. See https://www.ebay.com/itm/364218595525 for what I mean. And Karen is right: A separate and distinct turntable is much better: It can be tested on its own, repaired on its own, replaced, hooked to a different amp, and you specify the best turntable without reference to the amp, the radio, the CD and the cassette recorder. The only real advantage of these "all in one" units is that they take up less space, which, in these days of rent that grabs half the paycheck, is definitely something to be considered. One more advantage of the "all in one" is that it's easy to digitize your vinyl, if you're not at all picky about the quality of the digitized copy. Otherwise, you might be interested in my 2010 presentation on digitizing your vinyl records: https://troubleshooters.com/linux/presentations/leap_digitizing/leap_digitiz... SteveT Steve Litt http://444domains.com