I just did a but it now on a Fisher Price #820 with and extra needle for about 70 USD. Ive had an #825 and it was nice, but hard to find an ac plug in some record stores.This will fix all that AC/Batt with a diamond needle....Niiiiiice. So what are you digging with, show us your baby.
no AYO but i do own one of those vestax jammies. Its cool to listen to around the house or when im travelin but i never take it digging with me. I like surprising myself when i get home from the dig. my vestax though was all fucked up until recently. I had to solder a part of the tonearm casue it was only playing on the right channel, and I put a new stylus on it. Now it sounds decent.
I like surprising myself when i get home from the dig.
Thank you, I was trying to say this in a thread a few weeks back and fools didn't get it. I don't feel like you can truly hear and get the feel of the record just by listening quickly on a portable. I had one but I kept finding that I was dismissing records that I later listened to and really liked.
I do always feel like I would grab an old Fisher Price battery operated joint for cheap, to take on thrift store road trips, to weed out the Waxidermic from the Waxidoesn't.
Just please don't be one of those dudes rolling up and wanting to play the wall joints on some plastic needle bullshit...dudes understandably don't want their NM $300 joints being touched by those things for even a second.
Just please don't be one of those dudes rolling up and wanting to play the wall joints on some plastic needle bullshit...dudes understandably don't want their NM $300 joints being touched by those things for even a second.
Oh Heeeeeeeeeell no, and there will be none of this shit either.
The 'Ol Columbia GP-3, but i barely take it around with me any more. It was cool when I was looking for breaks, but since I don't really care so much about that stuff these days it stays home most of the time. I'll have to agree that it can be quite hard to hear what record really sounds like on a portable. Most good shops have listening stations now anyways. I mostly use it now when I'm in the kitchen doing the dishes.
I??m sort of in the market for one, but I think I??d like to get a good one that doen??t fuck up the records (i??ll be using it a lot), any recommendations? I heard a lot of crap about the vestax ones, but they don??t look bad.
I??m sort of in the market for one, but I think I??d like to get a good one that doen??t fuck up the records (i??ll be using it a lot), any recommendations? I heard a lot of crap about the vestax ones, but they don??t look bad.
Any help is appreciated.
- J
The only problem I have with the Vestax is occasionally the ON/OFF switch gets switched to ON as it can easily get caught when removing it in and out of a bag so loses points for bad design in that respect (killed batteries about 3 times now doing that).Could be argued it's too bulky as well. Other than that it does the job fine.
I got a fisher price and a real old national brand portable in mint condition at a pawnshop real cheap a few years back. Kept the fisher price and flipped the national for a buck fifty. I never bother taking it digging.
Just please don't be one of those dudes rolling up and wanting to play the wall joints on some plastic needle bullshit...dudes understandably don't want their NM $300 joints being touched by those things for even a second.
Oh Heeeeeeeeeell no, and there will be none of this shit either.
I??m sort of in the market for one, but I think I??d like to get a good one that doen??t fuck up the records (i??ll be using it a lot), any recommendations? I heard a lot of crap about the vestax ones, but they don??t look bad.
Any help is appreciated.
- J
The only problem I have with the Vestax is occasionally the ON/OFF switch gets switched to ON as it can easily get caught when removing it in and out of a bag so loses points for bad design in that respect (killed batteries about 3 times now doing that).Could be argued it's too bulky as well. Other than that it does the job fine.
Ok, thanks. What??s the regular price for it? Found one on eBay for 99 pounds (I??m in the UK right now)..
I??m sort of in the market for one, but I think I??d like to get a good one that doen??t fuck up the records (i??ll be using it a lot), any recommendations? I heard a lot of crap about the vestax ones, but they don??t look bad.
Any help is appreciated.
- J
The only problem I have with the Vestax is occasionally the ON/OFF switch gets switched to ON as it can easily get caught when removing it in and out of a bag so loses points for bad design in that respect (killed batteries about 3 times now doing that).Could be argued it's too bulky as well. Other than that it does the job fine.
I like surprising myself when i get home from the dig.
Same here, I got a Vestax as a gift but have only used it at home AFTER I come back from looking. As always, I like taking chances and while having the portable would eliminate me wasting money on crap, I don't mind too much if it's 25 cents a 45, or a dollar for an album.
EDIT: In the meantime, I am still looking for a Close-N-Play, my first record player:
I??m sort of in the market for one, but I think I??d like to get a good one that doen??t fuck up the records (i??ll be using it a lot), any recommendations? I heard a lot of crap about the vestax ones, but they don??t look bad.
Any help is appreciated.
- J
The only problem I have with the Vestax is occasionally the ON/OFF switch gets switched to ON as it can easily get caught when removing it in and out of a bag so loses points for bad design in that respect (killed batteries about 3 times now doing that).Could be argued it's too bulky as well. Other than that it does the job fine.
Ok, thanks. What??s the regular price for it? Found one on eBay for 99 pounds (I??m in the UK right now)..
- J
Me too and that's the price I paid for mine several years ago. You can obviously get them far cheaper from the US but P&P and import duty probably means it's just as cheap to buy in the UK.
santa did me a solid this year and got me a Numark. i likes. i'm using it more for fieldwork/research on the oral history tip than for digging. i have an old fisher price that warbles like a muh, only good after enough beer that it does not offend the ear. I"m in the market for a good Big Bird cause my little niece is getting to be that age
I just did a but it now on a Fisher Price #820 with and extra needle for about 70 USD.
So what are you digging with, show us your baby.
I have a 70's Panasonic model.. I can't find a pic of one online but they are pretty common to see at record shows. I bought it at a garage sale after being fairly disgusted with the Vestax Handi-Trax.. my thought on buying the Handi-trax first was.. it's new.. it will sound better and be easier to use than a 70's model used portable.. wrong.. it's big, it's clunky, it's poorly designed.. and it doesn't sound any better than the older portables I've used. And as mentioned, it's real easy to forget to turn it off or have it turn itself on because of the switch design.
The numark portable fits in a record bag and is cheaper. I'd reccomend a used one though, the Panasonics models are really nice and portable and sound solid esp thru the headphone jack.
If you are a baller, you might want to save up for the ultimate portable, the Soundburger.. hmmmmm Soundburger.
This page has some chunky but funky looking 70's models
I always see this and look at the croc picture in the upper left and wonder if they ever made one that looked like that. Cause if they did, I'd totally dig with a portable crocodile in my arm.
reminds me of a party we rocked at a friends Bday. mind you we used the numarks cause the motor is more powerful (good to use those heavy 45 adapters) and they are squire so ya can put them in the battle style setup.
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I don't use a portable. I dig bareback.
but i do own one of those vestax jammies. Its cool to listen to around the house or when im travelin but i never take it digging with me. I like surprising myself when i get home from the dig. my vestax though was all fucked up until recently. I had to solder a part of the tonearm casue it was only playing on the right channel, and I put a new stylus on it. Now it sounds decent.
Thank you, I was trying to say this in a thread a few weeks back and fools didn't get it. I don't feel like you can truly hear and get the feel of the record just by listening quickly on a portable. I had one but I kept finding that I was dismissing records that I later listened to and really liked.
Fisher Price battery operated joint for cheap,
to take on thrift store road trips, to weed out
the Waxidermic from the Waxidoesn't.
Just please don't be one of those dudes rolling
up and wanting to play the wall joints on some
plastic needle bullshit...dudes understandably
don't want their NM $300 joints being touched
by those things for even a second.
Oh Heeeeeeeeeell no, and there will be none of this shit either.
It was cool when I was looking for breaks, but since I don't really
care so much about that stuff these days it stays home most of the time.
I'll have to agree that it can be quite hard to hear what record really sounds
like on a portable.
Most good shops have listening stations now anyways.
I mostly use it now when I'm in the kitchen doing the dishes.
Any help is appreciated.
- J
The only problem I have with the Vestax is occasionally the ON/OFF switch gets switched to ON as it can easily get caught when removing it in and out of a bag so loses points for bad design in that respect (killed batteries about 3 times now doing that).Could be argued it's too bulky as well. Other than that it does the job fine.
Kept the fisher price and flipped the national for a buck fifty. I never bother taking it digging.
Ok, thanks. What??s the regular price for it? Found one on eBay for 99 pounds (I??m in the UK right now)..
- J
i never have that problem as i always use yours!
Same here, I got a Vestax as a gift but have only used it at home AFTER I come back from looking. As always, I like taking chances and while having the portable would eliminate me wasting money on crap, I don't mind too much if it's 25 cents a 45, or a dollar for an album.
EDIT:
In the meantime, I am still looking for a Close-N-Play, my first record player:
1 columbia GP-3
1 Fisher Price #820
1 phonorgan
Me too and that's the price I paid for mine several years ago. You can obviously get them far cheaper from the US but P&P and import duty probably means it's just as cheap to buy in the UK.
3 different ones.
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no sound burger for GP3 trade in order Bev????
I have a 70's Panasonic model.. I can't find a pic of one online but they are pretty common to see at record shows. I bought it at a garage sale after being fairly disgusted with the Vestax Handi-Trax.. my thought on buying the Handi-trax first was.. it's new.. it will sound better and be easier to use than a 70's model used portable.. wrong.. it's big, it's clunky, it's poorly designed.. and it doesn't sound any better than the older portables I've used. And as mentioned, it's real easy to forget to turn it off or have it turn itself on because of the switch design.
The numark portable fits in a record bag and is cheaper. I'd reccomend a used one though, the Panasonics models are really nice and portable and sound solid esp thru the headphone jack.
If you are a baller, you might want to save up for the ultimate portable, the Soundburger.. hmmmmm Soundburger.
This page has some chunky but funky looking 70's models
http://www.jackbergsales.com/electronics/electronics-record-players.htm
I always see this and look at the croc picture in the upper left and wonder if they ever made one that looked like that. Cause if they did, I'd totally dig with a portable crocodile in my arm.
with a linnear tracking tone-arm?
I always wondered how well those worked.
Ditto.......And OH BTW Raj..Disregard that question.
mind you we used the numarks cause the motor is more powerful (good to use those heavy 45 adapters) and they are squire so ya can put them in the battle style setup.
this machine is