Vinyl And Turntables

     As a trend vinyl recordings (records) and turntables are a hot thing now. After being a dead media for years high end turntables are making a come back. The really cool thing is that vinyl records on a good turntable sound better than a CD. Certainly better then the tinny sounding i phone stuff. 
     I still listen to the turntable and my LPs from time to time. I still have a lot of LPs bought in the 1970s and 1980s. I also have a lot of 45 RPM singles from the fifties to the seventies. Because of the larger grooves and faster speed they they seem to have more dynamic range. 
     If you look in the classified ads in about any local paper you can find whole lots of records for sale. People ridding themselves of clutter and estates. I also believe that there a few small companies making new vinyl records. So I guess there is a market. 
     In the Crutchfeild catalog I get they are selling expensive turntables. There are turntables available on ebay, yard sales and thrift shops. But they cannot be guaranteed to be of good working order. A dice roll. I have a direct drive Technics turntable made by Panasonic. Made in the late seventies in Japan they sold millions of these because they are a great turntable. Not as high end as the English models and high end other models, but effective. They have a little quartz strobe light that lets you know it is running at the right speed. I would consider these the classic turntables of the last run of them as the media of choice. You may have to get a new cartridge. This is the part that holds the needle that contacts the record itself. I have found these still available on ebay. There were belt drive turntables too. Most of the older turntables were belt drive. They may or may not be more quite. But the problem here is the belt rots after time and may not be able to be replaced. As no one is making them anymore. 
     So you have your old records. You find a box of them at a yard sale. You found a turntable. You are set.