Hello John,
Don't know what happened there,anyway,I'm trying to sort myself out with a decent turntable with a spending limit of £300.I have at the moment an old Technics system bought off Ebay,paid £80 for it and,of course,you get what you pay for.Like a lot of people I have reclaimed from the loft a lot of my old vinyl and after 50 years it is still wonderful to listen to.I am scouring the depths of Ebay and buying old LPs of groups that I used to love in my younger days.
I would really like to upgrade my system starting with the turntable but I find the choice I have rather confusing,I understand that the best T/Ts are manual ones but I don't like the idea of having to return the tone arm to the rest at the end of the record,what happens if you doze off while playing a record,does the stylus get ruined by the continuous jumping on the "run off" end of the groove?
Are there any decent automatic or even semi automatic decks out there,or is there no problem with leaving a record to spin for a short period at the end of the disc.
Thanks in advance