Moving Up from a Jolida JD9

OP,

Understood. I get the difficulty in parting with the LPs. You can see my wall of albums under my UserID, also started in the ‘60s. The sad thing is I seldom play them although I have a top notch TT and Phonostage. My audio dealer has instructions to sell it as a collection and my system and give the proceeds to my partner. 

But to maximize your enjoyment, I would think streaming. Way easier on the knees.
 

I definitely recommend going used, that can put you another level up.

I am retired as well. This is great, I have much more time to listen to music.

Following up on @tksteingraber.

I was able to bring up my streaming to the level of my vinyl sound quality. The benefits have been simply overwhelming for $12.99 per month. I have access to essentially all music. There is over half a million albums at high resolution, this is completely opened up by scope of music. Not to mention as your knees get more creaky you don’t have to get up enough or risk breaking off a stylist.

You might consider saving up and slowly investing in streaming. I have found you can spread out the payments over six months to years and the benefits are huge just a thought from my experience.. now retired for five years.

I walk a couple miles in the forest with my dogs, ride my bike at least five or six miles. So, getting up is simply hard and uncomfortable for me.

Having said that, when I play an album… a couple times a week, I like the ritual. My 2,000 albums are in pristine condition. I carefully do a light cleaning, and clean the stylist. It is a fun tradition. So I listen to an hour and a half of vinyl a week, and 20 hours of streaming… with the same sound quality.