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[quote=Anonymous]Do _not_ buy a "suitcase" portable turntable. Those things are trash and will destroy records. At a minimum, you want something not made of plastic and with adjustable tracking force and a proper cartridge (needle). Look at the Music Hall and Pro-Ject turntables, for example. Also U-Turn Audio and Audio-Technica. Expect to pay about $250-ish at a bare minimum for something decent with a cartridge. In addition to this, you need some sort of phono preamp, amplifier, and loudspeakers. Older home stereo receivers usually have a phono preamp and amplifier in the box. Newer ones may or may not have the phono preamp. With an external preamp, you can connect to a boom box or anything else with a "line input." You can go cheap on this stuff to get a working system, since none of this will destroy records and it is all easy to upgrade later.[/quote]
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