Moppit
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There's a Technics SL BD 22 for sale round me for £35 if you want I can check its still there...
Hi Mike,
Interesting - where are you? I'm down in Hampshire
Simon
There's a Technics SL BD 22 for sale round me for £35 if you want I can check its still there...
Most people getting into vinyl nowadays don't seem to care about the quality of playback though.
Of course it can be done, I and several others here have said exactly how. By the same token you can't get a working car for around £500, except that you can, if you know what you are doing. I'm on my 4th, and I inspected a very nice Honda Prelude for a mate 2 weeks ago, he's driving it now and says it's marvellous.
A Rega 2, a Thorens, a ProJect, a Japanese DD, all will give pretty damn good vinyl playback IF you get a good one. Yes, it isn't an LP12. But for £100 you buy a record player and not a badge to show off to your friends.
I rang about the Technics and its gone....sorry
I have a part time voluntary job as a function tester for a local charity shop which majors in electricals....so I can get my hands on the Hi Fi of course.
I know there is a Grundig Belt drive deck there with arm and no cartridge for about £30...I could get that if its still about....
There are 2 rega planar 2 on ebay at the moment under £100 . both have many bids on them and several days left . If the price of all other ones on ebay is a marker , they will sell for between 150 and 200.
you may get lucky without having to be up all nite . I very much doubt it .
It's no good looking at current auctiuons and then guessing how much they might sell for. If you look at the sold items in the Turntables category, it doesn't take too long to find the following successful sales:
Pioneer PL12D - £63
Dual CS505-2 - £83 (How much?!!)
Pioneer PL120 - £50
Technics SL-B202 - £55
Garrard 86SBMkII - £26 (massive bargain alert!)
Thorens TD-150 - £102
Technics SL-D210 - £65
And that's just on the first three pages.
So- decent turntable possible for under £100? Yes, not only possible, but easy.
A Planar 2 is neither plastic or ugly, and sounds pretty bloody good. It can be improved with new belts, or motor should one so desire. A decent cartridge can be had for £25 and you are good to go. Don't know why people say it can't be done, it can be and does get done regularly.