Miniot Wheel 2 Turntable (Page 3): After my more-or-less ancient Technics SL-5 linear-tracking automatic turntable died last year, I was forced to get a new one. I bought a Rega P2...

planepics Loc: St. Louis burbs, but originally Chicago burbs

After my more-or-less ancient Technics SL-5 linear-tracking automatic turntable died last year, I was forced to get a new one. I bought a Rega P2 with upgraded microline stylus for about $1,100. Add another $500 for a phono preamp and my original budget was blown out of the water. It's my first fully manual turntable and I don't plan on upgrading it for a long time! Besides, I'm happy with it. The dealer I went to has turntables and electronics rise into the 5 figures. The wheel looks like something Bang and Olufsen would have made.

Mr. SONY Loc: LI, NY

The dealer I went to has turntables and electronics rise into the 5 figures. The wheel looks like something Bang and Olufsen would have made.

Which dealer?
While it's been 30 years since I visited every high-end audio in Chicago area I still recall some of them.
Paul Heath Audio for one.
I got to hear a HQD speaker driven by all Mark Levenson electronics.
IIRC, Victor stereo somewhere.

MrPhotog

BebuLamar wrote:

I mean radio stations don't use turntable any more

As I understand it, the broadcast uses copies of the original.

When I toured WGN radio in Chicago in 2002 they were swapping tape cartridges. I imagine now they use solid state cards, or just haul up the digital files from a hard drive.

But to get the tape or digital copies off of vinyl originals they need to occasionally use a turntable. Or farm that out to some service.

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

BebuLamar wrote:

I mean radio stations don't use turntable any more

Some radio stations have shows where they spin Vinyl. I guess I may be the only one on the Hog that listens to Radio.

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

jerryc41 wrote:

I watched a YouTube unboxing and demo of a Miniot ... (show quote)

I still use my Technics Direct Drive Turntable and it is 1990s vintage.

planepics Loc: St. Louis burbs, but originally Chicago burbs

lamiaceae wrote:

Some radio stations have shows where they spin Vinyl. I guess I may be the only one on the Hog that listens to Radio.

I listen to the radio on a daily basis. My personal favorites are a jazz station broadcast by a local university and NPR, who had 3 hybrid digital stations, the "normal" one, a jazz station and a classical station. I sometimes listen to other stations through my Denon receiver "Tune-in" app. you can search by type of music or location - some stations overseas are broadcast in English and some in the native language...Greece is fun to listen to, or Hawai'i.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

planepics wrote:

I listen to the radio on a daily basis. My personal favorites are a jazz station broadcast by a local university and NPR, who had 3 hybrid digital stations, the "normal" one, a jazz station and a classical station. I sometimes listen to other stations through my Denon receiver "Tune-in" app. you can search by type of music or location - some stations overseas are broadcast in English and some in the native language...Greece is fun to listen to, or Hawai'i.

Let me suggest the Radio Garden ap (free) for simple to navigate thousands of streaming stations all over the world. Just pick a location from the world map, and a list of statins and the type of music appears, then just click on your selection to listen in real time. I’m finding that music from areas where European and Middle Eastern music intersect, such as Turkey, are interesting.

planepics Loc: St. Louis burbs, but originally Chicago burbs

TriX wrote:

Let me suggest the Radio Garden ap (free) for simple to navigate thousands of streaming stations all over the world. Just pick a location from the world map, and a list of statins and the type of music appears, then just click on your selection to listen in real time. I’m finding that music from areas where European and Middle Eastern music intersect, such as Turkey, are interesting.

That's exactly what the Denon Tune-In app does. It's just on the home stereo/TV screen vs. a phone. I hardly ever listen to music or podcasts on my phone, although do occasionally listen to something on the XM app since I have it in the car.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

lamiaceae wrote:

... I guess I may be the only one on the Hog that listens to Radio.

You are not. Im addition to short wave stations, ham radio and satellite/space communications, I regularly listen to NPR. Radio is magic - a window to the world.

planepics Loc: St. Louis burbs, but originally Chicago burbs

TriX wrote:

You are not. Im addition to short wave stations, ham radio and satellite/space communications, I regularly listen to NPR. Radio is magic - a window to the world.

Locally the NPR station (KWMU) is one of my presets on my car stereo and I listen to it at home, too. depending on my mood, I listen to either one of the digital channels, HDR 1 (normal), HDR 2 (jazz) and HDR 3 (classical). I grew up in the Chicago suburbs. The PBS station there was WTTW channel 11, the "Window to the World" :) on cable we get channel 9 (St. Louis) and, from where I went to college at SIUC, channel 8 - I'm was a saluki for two years while I got a degree that hadn't been very, um, useful. I have a BS in Aviation Management and am currently a monitor on a special-needs school bus making the equivalent of minimum wage, with ~6.2 years until retirement.