Curious .. What is the compared price of your tt vs spkrs

Dear @oleschool:  In the very old times I remember the many years " defunct/dead "  Stereo Review magazyne that over the years they posted a % relationship between: speakers, front end, amp and the like. They did it as a " secure " road to people and especially new audio people. Many of us followed that kind of " expert advise ".

Through the time almost all of us learned about and still are learning each single day.

My " $$$/%% "" priorities are in this order: LPs, room conditioning, true full range speakers, front end, IC and speaker cables, Phonolinepreamp, amps and somewhere in between an audio system dedicated electrical  line. Of course the skills and knowledge level to make the overall audio system set up as accurate as we can with the self capacity to be aware that our set up is just rigth as it should be.

Regards and enjoy the music,
R.

Dear @jollytinker : """ But that said, I find vinyl and digital to be very different.  Digital sounds nice to me but artificial ............. Vinyl records - a good one, clean and well recorded - makes me snap to and listen, as if the music is being performed for the first time. ""

Some way or the other both recorded medium are " artificial " in the sense that is not live MUSIC.

Both medium are imperfect ones and both with several kind of every kind of distortions through the recording and playback overall process that at the same time puts many limitations, either, to the digital or analog/LP medium.

Those each one medium limitations/distortions are the ones that makes the differences we listen through.

Today digital medium almost has no limitations/distortions or are severely lower than in the LP medium and perhaps the digital real limitation is our quality performance level in the home audio system.
That " artificial " that you name it is exactly what I'm saying and it's not " artrificial " sound but truer reproduced sound to the recording.
What we are hearing through the best in analog medium are not only some kind of diferent ( many of them ) sound but its very high kind of distortions and limitations against the digital medium that's  " years a head " on that: truer to the recording.

Many of us are accustomed ( for many years. ) to those very high analog distortions/limitations and we are accustomed to " live " away from what was take it by the recording microphones and we can't do nothing about other that try to mantain the distortions generated at each link in the home audio system link at minimum a very hard task that needs high knowledge levels to do it.

Anyway, we all in this forum are because first than all because we are MUSIC lovers. I hope all of us ???


Regards and enjoy the music,
R.