most reccomended turn table?

sonseelye wrote:the turntable itself has nothing to do with the sound my friend,,,its in the needle,vinyl,tonearm,and mixer...ive seen junk tables with superb clarity.
if you dont want to study the new age then i suggest you stick with your old 12's,,but if ur looking to step into the new era,,,tt04's have been ranked above stanton and numark, being cheaper than both.
like i said,i owned both and have no regrets what so ever.

being cheaper than both

this is the key.in the future! techs are still around with little change , and yes your right that the needle is what gives you sound quality, look at a cheaply built turntable and tel l me it doesnt sound like it sbeing played in the toilet. look at the tone arm structure of the 12 no dj tt out has that.

have you checked out the tt04's?
if not,i suggest you do.
like i said,i owned the 1200's for 6 years and nothing could take me away from them,,then i got my hands on the 04's and it was a wrap.
i am by no means a turntable guru, but i do know how to read blueprints(thanks to a factory i once worked at)
and if you compare the blueprints, they are very similar.
and the tt04 has a stronger and faster torq.
being a "scratch dj" this caught my attention. so off to the store i went,and havent shed a tear twords my 12's since we split..
i would never recomend someone AGAINST the 12's but i will recomend to someone that the 04's are a very reliable and comparible turntable..
i understand where your comming from because my love for my equipment also runs deep. but like my tattoo says sometimes you have to "roll with time"

vestax pdx-2000
shure m447
vestax pmc 07 pro
^^what i use and love. Can be had for cheap on ebay these days.

I'd say MK2 1210's. Only because I have been using them for years and cannot fault them. Suppose it's a little expensive to get just the one though. Although if you get the one, and you later want to DJ just pick up another and your away. The most popular deck in clubs and in hip hop.

JamesJeffery wrote:I'd say MK2 1210's. Only because I have been using them for years and cannot fault them. Suppose it's a little expensive to get just the one though. Although if you get the one, and you later want to DJ just pick up another and your away. The most popular deck in clubs and in hip hop.

reguardless they're industry standards. i played in clubs i played on the radio (collegeradio) and thats what they use. i always see vestax or numark on the side as back up's ,but techs dont need back up

TT-04s are nice tables -- really interesting. Stanton's offerings from the T90 onward are pretty good. The 120 and 150 have a tonearm equal in quality to the 1200's. The second revision of Numark's TTXs have proven reliable.

But those are all DJ tables and everyone keeps recommending him DJ tables when he says he has no intention of mixing or scratching. See my link above again; the arm on that Rega table shits all over the 1200's, so much so that some people mod their 1200s and put Rega arms on them.

I have a 1210 because I mix, scratch, but also listen to vinyl casually more than anything else. It's a nice balance between a DJ table and a hi-fi table. If I had no interest in DJing, backcueing, or mixing -- I would have a nice low-end audiophile deck -- probably a higher end Rega or Thorens. I swap carts on my 1210 with an M44-7 and an Ortofon elliptical depending on what I'm doing. If I wanted a deck solely for mixing and scratching? Look at Vestax's decks with their anti-skip technology -- it's insane. You can have the deck at almost a 90 degree angle and it still doesn't skip.

Technics is an old favorite, but at the end of the day what makes it tank-like is its motor design and the patent on that expired 10 years ago. Also, vinyl addicts tend to scorn direct drive tables.

id agree with that,, those rega turntables are really nice for just plain old listening pleasure

i have a stanton and i love it, but its never given me problems, and it plays the vinyl pretty nice. I need to get a new cartridge soon though.
Noob question; Can you replace the tone arms with a different style?

jdavidson wrote:i have a stanton and i love it, but its never given me problems, and it plays the vinyl pretty nice. I need to get a new cartridge soon though.
Noob question; Can you replace the tone arms with a different style?

yes they have replacments... you can try to get one to your style of table , never done it but it can be done.

Not usually unless the turntable is made to do so. The Rega mod for the 1200 is possible because someone designed a kit with specially made hardware to convert everything.

Gray 1200MK2... swapped out the stock RCA cables for monster cables 15 years ago... replaced the green pitch LED's to red LED's... 21 years now and still going strong!

IMHO... You can use any turntable to sample from... but it all depends on the needle you use.

JUKE 179r wrote:Gray 1200MK2... swapped out the stock RCA cables for monster cables 15 years ago... replaced the green pitch LED's to red LED's... 21 years now and still going strong!

IMHO... You can use any turntable to sample from... but it all depends on the needle you use.

i've had nice over 28 yrs they still have the og RCA but there gong out , i'm bout to replace the RCA on another one i just got for free from my buddy .my sixth deck(1200), i got a dual too.

i've been wanting to do that convert on mine too, i want green or them bright ass LED's that light up the room....one these days