Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously?

Aigenga, Do you mean to say that you will never want to play an LP again, even to generate a digital file of it?  Seems that the latter option might cause you to want to hang on to your rig.  But of course it's your decision to make.

Lewm,  I am tired of the mechanics of turntable life.  I am somewhat of a perfectionist so I spent a good deal of time and money using devices to ensure that every aspect of stylus on vinyl was just so, to say nothing of all of the downstream aspects of analog reproduction.  Adding an additional layer of ripping devices/software would be a step in the wrong direction for me.  

I have perfected my digital rig to the point where I can safely say it is excellent and needs no fiddling.  Although I am upgrading the devices as new technology and knowledge comes to the market.  I now have 3200 albums (many are multiple discs, and many are high-def) stored and instantly accessible.  You might have something similar.  I really love listening to multiple versions of a particular cut or laying out an involved couple of hours of tunes without having to go through the unshelving and reshelving of multiple records.  More time on music, less on mechanics.

I feel you, but I am far too lazy to make the effort to transfer my approximately 2500 LPs to digital, even if I wanted badly to do so, which I don't.  I have a very good CDP (Ayre C5Xe-mp), and I leave it at that.  My CD/SACD collection is much smaller than my LP collection.

@lewn egual for me