Earlier in this thread I related the difficulties of trying to help friends/family set up what I considered a decent sounding analog system on a tight budget. My experience for my own system is closer to that of @laltik. I really welcomed CD, as I hated all of the faults with vinyl, but after a while I wanted to be able to play lps that had not yet been digitalized, so after first buying the budget entry stuff from Project, I upgraded until I had about the same $ as @lalitk invested in a vinyl front end. Each upgrade brought successive improvements that were not trivial. However, by the time I had done that, all of the music that I was missing because it had not previously been digitalized eventually appeared on CD, and as I (re)acquired these recordings on CD it was no comparison, the digital bested vinyl buy such a wide margin that I gladly sold off my vinyl rig (at a profit, due to the vinyl resurgence) and will never look back.
Still, I get the requests from friends and family who know that I am an Audiophile and want to be able to play the lps that they have been storing in their basement for the last 4 decades. Frequently they think that their budget such be the same as when they bought their first turntable and so I try to direct them to Pro-Ject.
Still, I get the requests from friends and family who know that I am an Audiophile and want to be able to play the lps that they have been storing in their basement for the last 4 decades. Frequently they think that their budget such be the same as when they bought their first turntable and so I try to direct them to Pro-Ject.