Originally Posted by Bon
For the new stuff: Birdland in Sydney - www.birdland.com.au . Great little shop owned and run by music lovers not business types.
If you want new vinyl directly then Mobile Fidelity [MOFI] have a solid catalog of good quality recordings at very reasonable prices.
http://www.mofi.com/
If you are after 2nd hand Vinyl then: Garage sales, deceased estates, Charity Shops.. and so on for the used stuff. Actual record stoes will charge you a fortune and the quality is far from guaranteed.
If you are truly prepared to go the vinyl route then go 2nd hand records to make it worthwhile, buy in bulk and sell what you don't want to cover your costs.
Don't even consider the shit they sell at JB Hifi. It's poorly handled, overpriced, and sounds more digital than a good CD.
As someone that has owned over 5000 Vinyl LP's my question is what are you after and why on Vinyl ?
To get Vinyl to work costs a fortune and the ritual of maintaining the software is a complete pain in the arse.
For convenience get a mid priced SACD Player and get into SACD and CD because it's a lot easier to manage and a hell of a lot cheaper as well.
This is what I have: http://au.yamaha.com/en/products/aud..._a/?mode=model
It's about 20% of the cost of a decent Turntable, Phono Stage, and moving Coil - and the difference in sound quality is negligible at best.
Sound wise - a mid range SACD player as described above will eat any Turntable anyone here who's name isn't Hawk can afford.
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