Look for an integrated amp with adjustable settings for phono, like this one (the amp I own):   http://www.thevintageknob.org/sony-TA-F700ES.html   Sansui, JVC, Pioneer, Yamaha, Marantz, Onkyo, Denon, Kyocera, and other companies produced similar integrated amps.

    https://youtu.be/Cjjsz14hL48   "I bought a Stereo! Wow! With two speakers! But then I heard the quad with the four speakers and I was like this is it, so I got rid of the stereo and got the quad. I'm listening to this thing and I'm like 'Hey this sounds like shiiit!' So, I got rid of...

    Yeah, I got really tired of all the hassles. Even the best LPs (usually Japanese) had flaws. Eccentricity, warps, ticks, pops, dirt attracted by static electricity, non-fill, pre- and post-echo. I had a British import copy of Sandy, and in the song "Quiet Joys of Brotherhood", the pre-echo...

    Hilarious. The irony about the resurgence of 'vinyl' is that most people are playing their records on garbage turntables.

I owned a fine TT set-up. Thorens TD-125 Mk II, Magnepan tone arm, Stax cartridge. Cannot do much better than that.

    A decent turntable/arm/cartridge costs $5000 minimum. It still won't match an entry-level CD player.

LPs sound like ca-ca

  Huh?

Try Rogers LS5.

LOL   Sorry, I'm just fed up with all the hipsters claiming vinyl is so good....it sucks.

Yep!

Phonograph records are grossly inferior to the best CDs. It's not even close. Don't drink the Kool-Ade.   http://www.oregonlive.com/music/index.ssf/2014/11/does_vinyl_really_sound_better.html   http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/29-does-vinyl-really-sound-better/

I have an old UK version pressed in Swindon, and an old UK version pressed in Japan. Those two to me sound identical. I also have the 20th anniversary edition, which sounds a bit 'cleaner' but is definitely compressed in some way. For instance, the loud parts of Us and Them are definitely less...

anybody have a pair of V-7's to sell? I sat on mine and broke them.

Quote: Does anyone here have a pair of MDR-D333 headphones? The ear pads may be about the same size as those of the MDR-D77.