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 2 responses by tony1954

Funny you should mention this topic.

At the moment I am trying to decide this exact thing. Whether to sell everything analog or to keep my turntable (VPI Scoutmaster w/ Clearaudio Virtuoso Wood cartridge) and a few hundred albums.

To illustrate how divided I am. I have not listened to one record since my divorce and downsizing 8 years ago, yet I just bought a wall mount for the turntable and I am picking up a few records later today.

The main reason for this is a mixture of the convenience of digital and the amount of space that 1,500 records take up in a 700 sq. ft condo. When everything was analog, things just were what they were. Getting up every 20 minutes to change a record, cleaning your records, putting away a pile of records on Sunday morning, etc. However, I am about to turn 69 years old and I am just tired of the process.

Kind of like how, since retirement, I no longer golf in the rain.

Truth be told, if there was an easy method of sorting, cataloguing and selling a 1,000+ albums, I would have pulled the plug years ago.

@eagledriver_22 

Thanks for the response, but I really don't want to deal with selling and shipping individual records. I would much rather have people come my place and pick what they want or post them on Marketplace.