Turntables

[josh conquest]

i understand their porbably wont be many people able to help me and im probably in the wrong forum but im looking for a turntable with a diamond stylus but no speakers under £100. It would need to have a 3.5mm jack connection so i could use it with my sound blaster kratos s3. could anyone recommend anything?

[Volbet]

For under £100 you're going to be a bit hard pressed for options. 

You might be able to find one of the cheaper Hanpin-based turntables for that price. Something like an Audio-Technica LP60(X), Sony PS-LX300, Marantz TT5005 or Denon DP-200USB would do. 

They all have build-in pre-amps and the RCA cables can easily be adapted to a 3.5mm TRS jack. They would all work fine with your Sound Blaster unit.  

You could also look at used turntables, but you'll more than likely need to factor in the cost of a pre-amp into the total cost if you go this route.

 

A much cheaper, although a lot less ideal, solution would be to buy one of those cheap Shezhen Skywin turntables, a cheap replacement diamond stylus and an RCA-to-TRS cable. Obviously, this is less than ideal, but it will be the cheapest option that will give you a diamond stylus and that can be connected to your speakers.