I just have a couple of speakers and a Rega Mira amp, which I play spotify on. The mrs has bought a cheap turntable which see wants to plug in and play records on.
If it's the sort of record deck that cost under £100, and looks like it is built into a suitcase, it has its own speakers built in, and there's a red stylus on the business end of the tonearm, the any input on the Rega
except disc.
Any, but not disc.
Do not use disc..
- Any questions? LOL
Important info to save any old or new records.
The stylus tips on these decks wear out quickly. 50 hours playing time. Yup. That's your lot. The average LP carries around 45 minutes of music, so your looking at 60-70 plays before the stylus should be replaced.
Fortunately, the tips are cheap, especially if you buy 4+ at a time, they're commonly available via eBay and Amazon, and they're as simple to remove and install as a plug in air freshener.
Record care
Dust and finger prints are the killers of records. Running a stylus tip over that dust drives it into the groove making it very difficult to remove. Cleaning a record before and after a play will help reduce the dust build up. Handling by the edges and label will avoid getting greasy finger marks o the playing surface which makes dust harder to remove.
A record brush is a very good investment. This is something that actually pays off, so the use of the word investment is appropriate here. A small amount spent plus a little time developing the ritual saves pays you back in records that live longer and don't need to be replaced.
This is very good. The reason is that the velvet pad is about the size of a Mars Bar, so it's wide as well long. It is flanked on
both sides by carbon fibre bristles, not just one.
I think this below is the same product under a different badge. Google images suggests that it has the double bristle layout, and it's cheap. Worth contacting the seller in Dundee to check.
Everything else in record brushes is less: It's a smaller pad, or one row of carbon fibre, or two rows but no pad, yadda yadda yadda.
Here end'eth the lesson.
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Where a bit more cash was splashed, then look at the back of the deck. Near the red and the white RCA sockets youll find a switch. Two options, something like Phono and Line.
Here, setting to Phone is the correct position if you want to use the Disc input on the Rega. The Line setting is for any input except Disc.
