Have you asked yourself this question?


Lately I have thought about selling my entire analog set-up:  Turntable, phono preamp, and vinyl collection.  It's a good system, but my digital system sounds good enough that I don't listen to the analog system any more.

For purposes of illustrating my dilemma, my system is as follows:

Analog system:  Linn Sondek LP12, upgraded with Lingo II power supply, Karousel bearing, and trampolin suspension.  Loci Psionic Tonearm with practically new Clearaudio Maestro cartridge.  PS Audio Stellar Phono Preamp.  Plus, about 450 records, mostly popular stuff from the late 60s, 70s and 80s.

Digital System:  Metrum Acoustics Streamer (Roon endpoint) plus Metrum Onyx DAC.

Just curious if any of you have thought about selling your entire analog rig, because you don't listen to it.  What did you finally decide? Interested in your experiences.

hifinut51

Showing 4 responses by mahgister

How many russian pianist interpreter of Scriabin , not the pianist of the actual 20 years but before that as Merzhanov or Flier or Sofronitsky or Yudina or Neuhaus or Bunin, Feinberg, etc ?

 

Scriabin is for me one of the great composer not a marginal one , he reinvented piano playing and tonal/atonal colors after Chopin and Lizst before Schonberg recipe rule ...His music is a spiritual journey too ...

How many interpretation of the works of Sorabji streaming ? This mad composer is a genius too , among others his  5 hours Clavicem ballisticum and his  transcendental studies pieces numbering to 100 on many cd  ... Are they all there ? with whom at the piano ? 😊

also Maghister - you might be suprised by the depth and variety of Scriabin on streaming….my orchestra conductor buddys fave composer…. in LOVE with his streaming rig …while his LP 12 gathers dust…. ( but i have a plan to fix that… )

Streaming i did not ...😁 And i will never do ...

Try to find an erhu album or a tabla tarang album or a sarangi album or some fine russian pianist playing Scriabin ?

Or a Nordic countries long past jazz album ?

I never listen to most of the proposed too much well known  music in jazz , in world music too , save in the classical domain...

I could live with only Bach and choral music but i had fallen in love with musicians of all culture long time ago, jazz included ...

I forgot to say out of the convenience factor , there is no romanticizing the material format for me at all ... I was moved or not by the music not by the front cover of a vinyl ....😊

Twenty minutes anticipating the end of a LP side and feeling in the obligation to disturb my meditation by the idea that i have only 5 minute left at most eyes closed was too much for me ... The annoying clicking noise too was much ...

Just saying that i feel the past  misery ...😊

I sold any vinyl long ago...

Try to buy a vinyl of persian music or of Indian music ? Just try...😁

I dont listen pop/rock at all ...

I own 10,000 files mostly transfered lossless or bought as files ...

It takes a room with his 4 walls to kept 10,000 cd...Imagine vinyl now which are larger ...

I listen music all days from all non commercial genre , classical , jazz, persian, Indian and near east ...

Half of them are impossible to buy in vinyl ...

Most people who like vinyl i guess listen mostly rock and pop ...or they have a very limited collection of music .. ( There is a very good offering in classical vinyls though it is true, but here in audiogon classical music are rare birds it seems )

My gear/room serve my music listenings; i dont need to upgrade to be in ectasy ...my money go for music not for any upgrades i did not need anyway ... 😁😊😉

Digital well done rival vinyl now anyway  especially if vinyl system are not high end or well embedded as most are ...