In Search For The Best Turntable (Phonograph) Deal

Americans and British people call it a phonograph. Australians call it a record player or turntable. But in the more modern usage, this device is often called a turntable, record player, or record changer. Whatever that is, this device is simply called by Filipinos as pono in their local dialect. Phonograph, or gramophone, was then the most common device for playing recorded sound from the 1870s through the 1980s (that’s before the cassette tape, vcd and dvd players were born. Unlike the old movie ‘Back to the Future’, I’m incidentally moving forward to the past. How to find this device that’s still in a good condition and in it’s top functionality? It’s not easy, but not so difficult, too. My father used to have a 4-large speaker boxes quadrosonic component that can accommodate up to about 8-10 albums in one operation. Music can go from early morning till evening using this automatic feeding system and the sound was more than great. Lovely! But those were the days. My grandparents had theirs, too, but even two of them had already gone — so does the pono! Internet houses a lot of information on how and where to get them but the ocean is so vast I can hardly decide where to catch the right fish at the most reasonable arrangement. Re-aligning the arm,the needle, tuning it up again is quite a task. Careful moves should be taken in order to get the right product at the right price, from the right place and at the right time. Let me think first whether I would need a diamond needle…but even the ordinary one seems almost impossible. Good luck!