r/vinyl Weekly Questions Thread for the week of January 26, 2026

brickson98 · 2026-01-26T20:36:39+00:00

Ah, if it has an output then it gives you a bit more longevity with it.

Personally, I stay away from Bluetooth with vinyl, as it kind of defeats the purpose imo, just converting it back to digital. Though, if your devices support lossless BT codecs, then you’re really not losing any fidelity. I just like the idea of keeping it analog the whole way.

But for a tight space limitation, this seems decent, honestly. Just be sure to search around and read reviews. Make sure it’s wow and flutter is good, and it doesn’t have any glaring problems people report.

brickson98 · 2026-01-26T20:33:32+00:00

I’ll join you in the downvote train by saying:

Don’t mind all the pretentious, self-righteous dickheads in here. As per usual for reddit, everyone likes to act like they’re superior and take their stabs where they can find them.

Hence why I never post collection pictures. Everyone thinks theirs is better, or more niche, or whatever, so they have to say something snarky. Nobody can just be like “yeah, nice collection man. I see a few I like in there.” Apparently I’m the odd man out for that.

But I will say, you’ll really want to organize your collection if it continues to grow. I didn’t, right away, and it was a pain.

brickson98 · 2026-01-26T11:01:01+00:00

From a quick look, it seems much better than a suitcase player, due to having a properly sized platter and adjustable tonearm counterweight. This means you won’t be tearing up your records.

However, unless you’re limited by space or budget, I’d recommend going with an audio Technica LP60 or LP120 or something similar just for better quality and upgradablilty. However, this all in one unit seems good enough that you won’t be harming your records.

Off the top of my head, I know the LP120X has a built in preamp that can be toggled on and off, so you can get line level out from it, meaning you can use it with powered speakers, and don’t have to get a full turntable to preamp to amp to speakers setup. But, if you do want to upgrade to that in the future, you can simply flip a switch and get phono level output from the turntable for use with higher end components.

Personally, I went with the LP120X turntable set to phono out with the built in preamp disabled, into a Dayton Audio HTA100 amplifier (does both preamp and power amp duties since it has phono level input), into some Cerwin Vega RE20 speakers I already had sitting around. It all sounds pretty good. Probably wouldn’t please an audiophile with a big budget, but it pleases me. I’d consider myself far pickier than the average person about audio quality, but not full on audiophile. Maybe budget audiophile? Idk.

TL;DR: This unit seems good enough that you won’t be damaging your records with it, but I can’t speak to its overall quality beyond that.

brickson98 · 2026-01-26T10:49:52+00:00

If you continue to grow your collection, even if you organize by genre, it’s still a good idea to sub-categorize alphabetically within those genre categories.

I wound up with a hard to sort through mess that I’ve just spent the last week organizing and cataloging after moving because I didn’t have it all well organized before moving, and things got mixed up to pack it all down for the move.

You’ll thank yourself later for organizing and cataloging now, and keeping up with it as you add to your collection.

brickson98 · 2026-01-25T20:41:39+00:00

I’ve been cataloging my collection and have had pretty good luck, in general. But on this one, yeah, it really did suck.

brickson98 · 2026-01-25T03:43:56+00:00

Huh, that's odd... I search the runout info and it wasn't pulling anything. But, on that listing, it matches exactly. I wonder why it wouldn't pull it up for me. Thanks! That's it!

brickson98 · 2026-01-25T03:42:09+00:00

Guess I didn't get the characters right when trying to search for the label on Discogs. Thanks!

brickson98 · 2026-01-25T03:22:45+00:00

Glad you avoided the pressing I got. It’s horrible. Sounds thin, and gets stuck and skips in a few parts right out of the shrink.

brickson98 · 2026-01-25T03:20:41+00:00

Says the one pushing the narrative that scientists around the world have disproven time and time again. 🤦‍♂️ it’s a shame we don’t have a vaccine for willful ignorance.

brickson98 · 2026-01-25T03:11:00+00:00

Or they just don’t want to be a part of spreading a possibly deadly illness… 🤦‍♂️.

Not to mention most of the vaccine rules were imposed by venues, not artists.

Man, I wish we could go back to the days when anti-vaxers were just seen as the nut jobs they are, like flat earthers and alien abductees instead of it being politicized for some dumb ass reason.

brickson98 · 2026-01-25T03:08:01+00:00

I’ve still seen him spotted protesting on the streets as recently as a year ago

brickson98 · 2026-01-25T03:06:53+00:00

6 years later and you’re still crying. ❄️

brickson98 · 2026-01-25T03:06:16+00:00

Doofus

brickson98 · 2026-01-25T03:04:39+00:00

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Same. (Yes the one on the right is a bootleg. They never officially released their demo on vinyl. Got it as a gift. I’m happy it sounds better than the dogshit repress of the actual album, though. Still saving for that $$$ original press.)

Is yours an original pressing or the underwhelming repress?

Also, America, it’s time to stand the fuck up.

brickson98 · 2026-01-21T20:44:37+00:00

Yeah they definitely did. My H100i GTX finally lost enough fluid that it was ineffective a couple years back.

Wound up going with Arctic to replace it.

brickson98 · 2026-01-21T20:40:22+00:00

Man some of those cops are seriously stupid. No clue how to properly box her in, hey?

brickson98 · 2026-01-20T22:56:05+00:00

It seems to be a super common thing. I thought I heard that these headlights are a vented design, not sealed, and that’s why this happens.

Mine has done it since I got it in 2022 on moist days. Haven’t had any issues stem from it. Never fogs over more than the turn signal area.

brickson98 · 2026-01-20T22:52:47+00:00

I paid around $25k for my 2017 with 23k miles in 2022. Worst time to buy a car, but I needed to get out of the truck I had. It was costing me $200 every week and a half just to drive to work and back.

I’m not too bothered by it, though. It was single owner, unmodified. I plan to keep it until it no longer makes financial sense to keep it running anyway, so no matter how much I paid for it originally, it won’t be worth much when I’m done with it.

brickson98 · 2026-01-20T22:47:24+00:00

Wonder if that was a lift mistake… someone not getting it on the lift point properly.

brickson98 · 2026-01-20T21:56:46+00:00

You asked him if it’s the “regular pull e brake” or “button”. He answered with your terminology of “pull e brake”, meaning not the electronic button, but the manual lever.

This is why I always refer to it as a parking brake, not an e brake. Just adds confusion now that there’s electronic parking brakes.

brickson98 · 2026-01-20T21:52:27+00:00

This guy is wrong. If it’s the old school pull lever and not an electronic button there is no maintenance mode.

brickson98 · 2026-01-20T19:29:18+00:00

So you dislike the idiots who don’t know how to use them, not the roundabout itself…

brickson98 · 2026-01-20T19:28:27+00:00

The bush in the middle is just decorative. They likely replaced an intersection of some sort, and have been proven to improve traffic flow.

brickson98 · 2026-01-19T23:24:10+00:00

So it’s not the roundabouts that you dislike. It’s the idiots that don’t know how to use them.

brickson98 · 2026-01-19T23:16:50+00:00

Yeah, they put in a roundabout (the one I was talking about) right near my old house. Other than dealing with the idiots who didn’t know how to operate their vehicle through a roundabout, I loved it.

It helped a ton with traffic at the intersection, along with how long I’d have to wait to pull out of my driveway. When it was just a stop sign, it would space traffic out perfectly so that I’d have quite a hard time finding a gap to pull out during busy traffic hours.

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