# Do you own a functioning, ready-to-go turntable? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 14, 2012, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-a-functioning-ready-to-go-turntable/621831 "2012-05-14T01:51:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-a-functioning-ready-to-go-turntable/621831/21 "2012-05-14T07:03:48Z")
My partner bought me one 4 years ago when I discovered a bunch of teenage vinyl in my parents loft. We play it pretty much daily - one person cooking, the other choosing albums, and it has become a habit to scour old shops and buy each other an album every birthday to build up the collection. We love it. It’s an excuse to play some great old stuff and we seem to pay the music so much more attention than when we’ve just got the ipod on shuffle. We actually listen to it. I’m a 42 year old woman, BTW. With FAR too much 80s electric 😉 ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-a-functioning-ready-to-go-turntable/621831/22 "2012-05-14T07:28:05Z")
I have 4. I saw one of them on EBAY selling for £1600 - it is very rare but I think its a little overpriced Beogram 3000 ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-a-functioning-ready-to-go-turntable/621831/23 "2012-05-14T09:07:01Z")
My last turntable stopped working 12 years ago. I threw all my records in the trash a couple of years later. ---
**Author:** ![Panurge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@Panurge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panurge)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-a-functioning-ready-to-go-turntable/621831/24 "2012-05-14T13:07:31Z")
Yes. I own two Technics 1210 mk2 and use them all the time. I buy most of my music on vinyl; thankfully most publishers now include a download code in the price so I won’t have to go through a tiresome a-\>d conversion process. ETA: I’m 33. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-a-functioning-ready-to-go-turntable/621831/25 "2012-05-14T13:54:35Z")
I’m in my 30’s and he’s in his 40’s and we have a record player. It’s actually new, and we’ve been buying a lot of records lately. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-a-functioning-ready-to-go-turntable/621831/26 "2012-05-14T16:33:34Z")
Yes, and I still use it. I’m too cheap to replace my vinyl with CD’s, or whatever you kids are using for music nowadays. Billy Joel’s on it now. “I ammmmmmmmmm an innocent mannnnnnnnnnnnn”. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-a-functioning-ready-to-go-turntable/621831/27 "2012-05-14T17:12:18Z")
I just got one, free, from a vintage store I love. (It’s got a hum that they thought was a defect, but I think is a natural part of the speaker and vacuum tubes, and it doesn’t bother me) I’m 30. I think I only have five records, and I haven’t unpacked them yet (they’re in a box at the bottom of a stack.) ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-a-functioning-ready-to-go-turntable/621831/28 "2012-05-14T17:44:34Z")
My trusty Sony turntable is sitting behind me. Unfortunately, all of my record albums are in boxes in the guest bedroom closet… ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-a-functioning-ready-to-go-turntable/621831/29 "2012-05-14T18:13:35Z")
I am 50, and I do have one that is ready to go anytime I want, but in fact I rarely use it. I think I’ve played a record on it three times in the last five years. ---
**Author:** ![thelabdude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@thelabdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelabdude)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-a-functioning-ready-to-go-turntable/621831/30 "2012-05-14T19:20:18Z")
Interesting it goes up with age to 50’s and then drops. If that because at 68, I am an aberration here? Yes I have one and once in a while I use it. When my inlaws died, my wife and I claimed all their vinyl. ---
**Author:** ![black\_rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@black\_rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/black_rabbit)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-a-functioning-ready-to-go-turntable/621831/31 "2012-05-14T19:26:47Z")
I’m 33, and still punk rock as fuck. I still own more LPs and 45s than I do CDs (though the majority of my collection is electronic.) I have a Teac turntable with a built in amp, speakers, and USB/SD MP3 recorder set up in my man cave. I get drunk and spin records with my buddies on it once every couple of months. ---
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-a-functioning-ready-to-go-turntable/621831/32 "2012-05-14T19:43:24Z")
I ditched a ton of vinyl several years ago. I held onto my turntable “just because,” but it’s not hooked up to my receiver. ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-a-functioning-ready-to-go-turntable/621831/33 "2012-05-14T19:45:34Z")
Most of my collection is LPs. Turntable’s fine, but my CD player is broken. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-a-functioning-ready-to-go-turntable/621831/34 "2012-05-14T20:07:32Z")
> [@Silver\_Tyger](#): > > I just got one, free, from a vintage store I love. (It’s got a hum that they thought was a defect, but I think is a natural part of the speaker and vacuum tubes, and it doesn’t bother me) I’m 30. I think I only have five records, and I haven’t unpacked them yet (they’re in a box at the bottom of a stack.) All regular turntables require a separate ground connection in addition to the left and right audio. If you don’t have that connected, or if you have it plugged into any receiver or pre-amp input other than one marked “phono”, you’re going to have a huge hum. ---
**Author:** ![FatBaldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-a-functioning-ready-to-go-turntable/621831/35 "2012-05-14T20:18:07Z")
I am in the 60+ group and I said yes, but up until about 6 months ago my answer would have been no. When my wife’s father passed away, he had several boxes of old albums that she had enjoyed listening to as a kid, so for sentimental reasons we got a turntable with a built-in CD burner, and we converted some of the old albums to CD’s. ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-a-functioning-ready-to-go-turntable/621831/36 "2012-05-14T20:23:42Z")
no, I live in the 21st century ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-a-functioning-ready-to-go-turntable/621831/37 "2012-05-14T20:29:34Z")
I have a turntable that was given to me as a teenager, but it is stored in the basement because I don’t have room for it and my records in the room where my stereo is. I have kept it because I inherited several hundred LPs of classical music, so I might want to set it up and bring out the records sometime when I’m somewhere with more space. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-a-functioning-ready-to-go-turntable/621831/38 "2012-05-14T20:37:12Z")
Two. I listen to records often. My albums from the 60s and 70s make up most of my collection. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-a-functioning-ready-to-go-turntable/621831/39 "2012-05-14T20:38:39Z")
I’ve got ~300 LPs, which still constitute the majority of my music collection. So of course I’ve got a working turntable. Finally got a digital turntable so I can start converting them, but haven’t started doing so yet. ---
**Author:** ![heathen\_earthling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/13edae/32.png) [@heathen\_earthling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heathen_earthling)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-a-functioning-ready-to-go-turntable/621831/40 "2012-05-14T20:40:40Z")
I’m 25 and I use mine pretty regularly. I think I’ll go put a record on right now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-a-functioning-ready-to-go-turntable/621831.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-a-functioning-ready-to-go-turntable/621831.md?page=3)