Friday, November 21, 2008

More and More People wants Vintage Turntables

Right now, people are looking for vintage turntables everywhere. Even though there are new CD turntables available, and USB turntables for easy mixing on your laptop, people are still looking for the old school turntable they started doing their thing on.

What People are Searching for Antique Vintage Turntables?

All kinds of people are looking for vinyl players from the days when they where still young. Grandparents want them because they miss the sound that they used to listen to music to, or they want to have something nostalgic in their living room.

DJ’s who started in the mid 70 or 80 want vintage turntables to bust their old moves. They just feel like the cross fader or the pitcher was better back in the days.

Retro is popular everywhere, and this works in the music industry as well. People want to represent their roots, and play the music on the tools they used, or their musical heroes used.

Where can you find Vintage Turntables?

There are still a lot of good quality vintage turntables around. The website http://www.vintage-turntables.com pushes more players than never before. Flee markets might also be a good place to get your hands on some classic old school turntable sets. One other tip is to ask your old ones if they have a turntable set in a dusted room somewhere.

You will be able to find a lot of turntables available from back in the days. Garrard, Rek-O-Kut, Bose and Sanyo, together with Technics, Sony and Pioneer. You can still also find all the parts you need available in most stores. Some kind of equipment might be hard to get in your local town. Still a quick search on the auction site eBay will in most cases turn up the results you will need.

Is the Sound Quality Better?

You will hear this discussion a lot of times in the turntable forums and other places where us turntabelists meet up. The modern turntables have several benefits, and will in many cases present a stronger and more digital sound. The vintage turntables still has the classic sound that many are looking for. The sound is often more rusty with a nostalgic feeling. Your classic vinyls was developed to be played on one of these type of instruments.

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