As a lady audiophile just getting into HiFi I love your videos. You put incredible effort into production and it is clearly a creative process for you. Well done - it's been very informative and I look forward to more creative from you. Keep doing it as you do as you clearly are apart from all the rest.

1. Welcome to the analog hi-fi rabbit hole. 2. Say goodbye to your hard-earned money. 3. I love your channel. 🙃

A fantastic guide for Turntable newbies. It's just great to see your journey into vinyl.

Thanks Simon, another masterclass. I'm on the verge of getting back into vinyl after a break of 20 years & swearing "never again!" Just wondering how my records, now sitting in the attic, will sound having been so badly abused during my teenage years. Good luck with your journey.

Only just this vid for some strange reason as I’ve binge watched most of yours? Oddly enough I got seriously ill early winter and decided to cheer myself up with an audiophile entry turntable. You did not do vinyl but I listened to the other reviewers who do - like Darko and Robinson plus what hi fi etc. Took a punt on a Pro ject X1 in part because of a Robinson review on your dec. And the hype on your dec meant the X1 was losing a lot of love (as well as a balanced upgrade X1 is out) so got my dec nearly new demo at about half price. Thus your YT vid is most illuminating (as usual) and I will follow your journey with keenness. My system is part home cinema so a vg Yamaha receiver and Panasonic Blueray/CD with YAPO; Paul Barton Synchrony stand mounts (amazing); Eversolo stream Dac; Mofi phono. Vinyl does different in my system - sounds more musical. As a result just beginning to get sucked down into the ‘vinyl rabbit hole’ …….

Thank you for this level of detail, really fun listening to this

As always great production and very clear description of a rather jargon laden topic. Thanks Simon

Bravo Simon, this was a spot on review/how to. Glad to see you back at it, keep up the hard work

It's about time, Simon. Great review!

Wonderful review, as always!

Beautifully put-together, as usual -- thanks and cheers

Thanks this is a really helpful and beautifully thought through video. I love vinyl for the same reasons as you.

Fab Job Simon ! detailed presentation ,the background music... Keep Going 👌

Wonderful filmic quality to the video as always, bravo Simon!

I think an MC with that would be amazing. Look forward to hearing your update on this

What a fantastic video! Learnt a lot there ! Many thanks Simon 👍

very much like my debut pro. bit fiddly to set up but once running its a joy to listen to vinyl. i have many cd and years of vinyl enjoy simon its all music to soothe the soul great viseo cheers

Yes, welcome back! And welcome in the vinyl works as well! It’s fun isn’t it? Hmm, a Board of Canada record, cool!

Hi Simon. Nice to see you do a video on a TT and vinyl. As a person who grew up listening to music this way, I have gone the other way, from just vinyl, then adding CD's, then just listening to CD's, to just streaming now. It's mainly due to reducing clutter and ease of use, by pressing a button on my phone and choosing a track or album from my chair. I think age and laziness has a lot to do with it 😂. Tubular Bells 2 is my personal favourite of the Bells series and Nick Drakes album is a nice one also. That Pro-Ject TT is very good for the money. Enjoy your listening and thanks for sharing. 👌

Long time no see Simon🫵✨💎

Damn I sure hope these guys are paying for this!

Great to see you getting into Vinyl Simon - enjoy. It definitely gives you a far greater connection to the music/artist than any other format and sounds better a lot of the time too. Nice phonostage - which will easily see you through several turntable and cartridge upgrades. I hope you add cartridge and phonostage reviews to your channel. I recommend you try a Nagoaka MP-150 or 200, it's a moving iron (permalloy) design which outputs at same level as MM. They give you the best of both worlds between MM and MC. Finally, really good explanations and graphics in your video - great job.

Looking forward to this one. Good vinyl requires clean records to sound great IMO. Let us know how you get on when you go mc.

Simon is an ace communicator who can make anything interesting and informative. Fantastic stuff as usual.

Nice video as always Simon. I've been trying the Classic Audio Spartan 5 phono stage from Michael Fidler. It's a revelation for the money and has completely got rid of all my grounding woes. Worth a look if you get a chance mate.

How are you still liking the Hegel? I am considering the Hegel, Goldmote ph10 or the moon 310lp. So far leaning to Hegel but curious on others experiences

i thought i could XLR my way out of the hiss for JBL 305p's because everyone says they have an annoying hiss. but amir at ASR told me i couldnt. *shrugs

Welcome to the money pit, that is vinyl :-)

Can you please comment on what you think of the sound signature of the Pick-it-Pro... In my set up there is some sibilance in the vocals and a hardness in the highs... What is your experience?

Never mind all the technical stuff,buy a Rega plug and play and just enjoy the music.

plastic subplatter at this price point ? simply unacceptable

never seen a good Pro-Ject turntable all sound very bad till around 1.000€ and it´s cartridge only if buying a good one will give a similar sound compared to old and very good turntables mainly from the 70´s but i bought a thorens turntable in the 90´s that was their best turntable at the time with old Ortofon cartridge and stylus mc type it is very good ,today one spends a lot of money and the stylus become a lot litle and having 1/5 of the hours of use, hegel if cheap is far from being a good integrated amplifier and very picky to find a set of speakers that might reproduce a aceptable quality of sound, one can find in 2nd hand cheaper modern material, for one reason people want to get rid of them, they are basically trash, this new concept of begginers systems are to make people never want to buy a turntable again , and i in the 80´s used to make fun of the turntables built all in plastic at least if well installed they had good sound which doesn´t happen today wich is sad, one can buy in second hand material from the 70´s even the cheapest ones are high quality sounding and well built ,only the speakers can be bought new and give a clean and almost perfect sound to 70´s gear if in good condition ,which is not dificult to find, i bought recentelly to a friend a SX-430 from 79 with a technics turntable ,76 model the DD SL-3100 with original cartridge and stylus normally the most used since 76 270C or 207C with EPS-270EDn stylus which there are lot´s being sold but not a usable stylus , i tried a brand who was building them good but the price is almost 100€ but also find ones for 60€ that have a bigger plastic box who are perfect ,i worked for many years in a laboratory with magnifying glasses that can be conected to a computer instead of watching them directelly through the binocules and watch a styuls like if it were 2 meters high, this from Nikon ,are the same devices seen on tv while watching rocks that were retrieved in Mars, if found some working and never restored SB-F3 from technics it will sound perfect but there are more recent speakers that are very good also, i bought some new cartridges that don´t match the sound of the ones i was using but are ok like the Grado prestige III gold they do have a good frequency response but dynamics are not that good also a litle expensier the ortofon cadenza black S , the Nagaoka MP-300 and 500 are also very nice ,the "Mblack LVT edition also sounds good but this in very good systems and very good turntables that today if sold new they would cost all from 5.000€ and much more, Nagaoka built cartridges and stylus for technics for a lot of years the one i refer earlier was one of them, technics even released a few years ago a SL-1000 something that costed more than 5.000€ and they asked nagaoka to built a cartridge and stylus tob this turntable ,here on youtube when showin g this turntable the first thing i notice is having installed a 2Mblack cartridge from Ortofon ,this shows how this guys critising this or that have not a clue about hi-fi componets ,i say this because they installing a 2Mblack it stays with a lesser good sound ,the nagaoka built for it it´s several times better allthough the Ortofon is a aceptable cartridge takin`in account that most of seen today are in reality garbage, to end a friend of mine from the netherlands and other from germany came to live near me in south interior of Portugal because it´s sunny all year around, grey days are to me a very nice day ,for them it´s the reverse but one of them being filphy rich as all the best turntables known to men but ,"i´m going to buy a Pro-Ject " he said ,well when returning from germany after christmas and the new year ,he wanted me to see his pro-ject and i went to his home , the surprise was seeing a looking good Pro-Ject with a sound very cliose to the best turntables made but then he explains that between the turntable itself and the cartridge he spent 14.000€ ,well that´s how much youn have to pay to have a good sounding pro-ject, but with almost 200€ you can also buy a 70´s technics working perfectelly ,normally all direct drive with the same sound quality, i could say that i´m using now a toshiba turntable and a hitachi pre and power amplifier with some restored celestion ditton from the 1970 catalog with a tascam reel deck and a teac deck bought in 79 , i don´t know how many thousands of €´s one had to spend today to match it´s quality of sound. Today the goal is stealing from people is what i´ve watched for the last 7 years and here on youtube hi-fi relatecd videos most of them are not especialized in hi-fi but just saying good things of bad material maybe they never seen nothing good but why are they watched by the millions if not having a notion of what is good sound, only garbage