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
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.
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”.
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.)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
