• My 17 year old nephew visited recently and took a real shine to playing some of my records.

    He has just messaged asking what would be a good starter record deck. I am not sure of budget at the moment, I am assuming around £200. Any suggestions? Ia there anything with some kind of integrated speaker that has an output that could connect to an amp in the future?

    No idea if anything like this exists!

  • My nephew showed similar interest a few years ago (hes now 22). I gifted him some of my old equipment to get him up and running. He lost interest pretty quickly after he released that listening to vinyl means you have to actually buy the music you want to listen to.

    I think its something that people who have grown up only ever knowing streaming as their sole way of listening to music struggle to comprehend until they go to a record shop and realise vinyl is expensive unless you're willing to put in the footwork digging for bargains, which my nephew was 100% not willing to do.

  • He has bought a couple of albums since visiting us (without having a deck!).

    It may be a phase, I think a few of his mates are into it.

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