wemist01
Active Member
My daughter plays double bass and has decided that she wants to move from listening only to YouTube to playing records. The turntable and stereo system in the family room is too public; she want's something for her room. The only redundancy I have is a spare phono stage, and that may be useless here. The turntable, cartridge and speakers - all the ways this fits together - are an open question.
My daughter has taste enough to know that the sound from her Amazon Echo/Alexa device is crap, so I'm looking for a budget solution that has enough quality to satisfy someone with growing discernment. It needs to sound good while working in a normal size room. It occurs to me that the speakers - or some stage of this arrangement - should probably accept bluetooth or a second line in so she can stream from her phone, too. My system is pretty early-90s outside a digital feed from my computer so this is all outside my universe- quality budget/current tech has never been my thing.
Suggested solutions or pointers on where better to ask are welcome. Someone's going to ask about budget, so my dream here is to come in under $600.
I should also add that I'm in Chicagoland, so Craigslist has a lot of options. I can imagine getting a serviceable turntable, a good budget cartridge and decent small active speakers. That's the starting notion...
(Obviously, having a turntable as one of your primary playback methods- before you even have a CD player - is a bit silly, but I'm not going to change her interests. What's cool is cool.)
My daughter has taste enough to know that the sound from her Amazon Echo/Alexa device is crap, so I'm looking for a budget solution that has enough quality to satisfy someone with growing discernment. It needs to sound good while working in a normal size room. It occurs to me that the speakers - or some stage of this arrangement - should probably accept bluetooth or a second line in so she can stream from her phone, too. My system is pretty early-90s outside a digital feed from my computer so this is all outside my universe- quality budget/current tech has never been my thing.
Suggested solutions or pointers on where better to ask are welcome. Someone's going to ask about budget, so my dream here is to come in under $600.
I should also add that I'm in Chicagoland, so Craigslist has a lot of options. I can imagine getting a serviceable turntable, a good budget cartridge and decent small active speakers. That's the starting notion...
(Obviously, having a turntable as one of your primary playback methods- before you even have a CD player - is a bit silly, but I'm not going to change her interests. What's cool is cool.)