RE: Return of vinyl?
I'm with Jessica all the way. Love vinyl, although I sometimes have a hard time justifying it, based purely on the convenience of cds.
As for a turntable, there are a few different paths you can go, depending on your goal. It's not hard to find an old, very decent turntable at garage sales and thrift stores. If you're looking for something of a little more quality, you can enter the audiophile world without totally breaking the bank. I like www.audiogon.com as a used equipment resource. You can break into the turntable market for around $200 used (excellent brands that provide entry level gear include Music Hall, Rega and Pro-ject). You can also find some of the more esoteric brands at local shops such as Ovation and Audio Solutions, but I will always be an advocate of buying good stereo equipment used; people who care enough about sound quality to buy this stuff tend to take great care of the gear.
Regardless of what you decide to buy, you've go to plug your turntable into a receiver and most new receivers don't have phono inputs. This means you've got to either buy a separate phono pre-amp or buy a turntable with a built-in pre-amp (Sony makes a decent one).

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