OT: Record Deck

[gridgway]

My daughter is in the process of buying her first house and has declared an interest in vinyl and wants a deck. I have quite a lot of spare hifi gear, so can oblige. However on getting out my trusty Thorens TD280 from the loft after many years of not being used, it's a bit on its last legs - the motor is very noisy, the start button is always in start, the electronics that hold the tonearm lift down are somewhat flaky and the lid doesn't hold up!

So I thought, there must be many unused good record decks in lofts that people have no need of...

All ideas welcome

Cheers
Graham

[sladey]

If you get no joy there's always plenty on ebay - I picked up a nice Rega Planar 3 during lockdown, and also sent away my old Mission cyrus amp for a full refurb.

[Jonny Hart]

Save yourself the bother. A new deck that can also record straight to MP3 is around £130

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Audio-Technica ... 5258&psc=1

[gridgway]

You are probably right Jonny!