Rega Planar 3 vs Victrola Eastwood

It's extreme stability with almost friction free movement from the high precision bearing assemblies helps. It gather more info from your vinyl for an...

They won't destroy your records -- that's a debunked myth -- but they won't deliver anywhere near the sound quality vinyl is capable of. And the Victrola Eastwood is better than the typical cheap record players because it comes with an Audio-Technica AT3600L magnetic cartridge with a diamond stylus, instead of the red ceramic cartridge and sapphire or ruby stylus, which most others come with.

This is what it used to come packaged with, and that's about a three hundred dollar cartridge and the whole package was twelve hundred and forty five ...

So if you are wanting the bare minimum that will provide reasonably good sounding fidelity, with a good cartridge and a cheap price, the Eastwood is the way to go. The best table you can buy on a tight budget or just trying to figure out whether you are truly into LPs. Far better than a Crosley Cruiser and far better than those Panasonic portables from the 1970's.