re: Asking about record players, 
@Hayling@weirder.earth Works fine for CDs (fun fact: there was a CD walkman from sony that was actually smaller than a CD, the disc stuck out the side while playing), but for a record where you have to put physical tracking force on the thing, yeah that's not great
-F
re: Asking about record players,
@Hayling@weirder.earth oh and i will note by the way, there are absolutely junk turntables you can get from the 70s and 80s too, it's just that non-junk ones were being manufactured back then and they aren't now
look up reviews and stuff, check out forums for people into this kind of stuff
also expect to have to do a little minor repair on anything you buy; after forty-odd years rubber belts will have mostly turned to gunk that will need to be cleaned out and replaced with a new rubber belt, but replacing belts is usually easy
oh yeah and a lot of turntables of that era are meant to be used with an external amplifier--if you find a good one taht doesn't have a built-in amplifier (often called a "phono preamp", or it may just say "line-level outputs" or something) you'll need one of those too. i think you can get modern ones of those that are perfectly serviceable though
-F
