What is your vinyl commitment?


Total cost of ONLY THESE ITEMS: turntable (including power supply), Cartridge, Phono Stage (phono pre-amp).

 

Personally, I'm at $3,195 for Rega P6 with Ania Pro Cartridge and a pre-owned Zesto Andros tube phono stage (pre-owned for $1,900) - Magic!

 

How invested are you?  

connollymj

Showing 2 responses by whart

Oy vey. A lot. My main system is in my system profile here. A lot of that turntable equipment was purchased back in the aughts, when I moved to Texas full-time at the beginning of 2017 I needed to use the big Minus K bench top isolation platform, added a second arm pod and arm, more cartridges, had a custom compressor silencer box built to my specification, and retubed the phono stage with true NOS tubes. But the biggest "investment" (I’d call it an outlay, none of this is an "investment" in financial terms) is the record collection, which reflects 60 some years of buying LPs. Most of those were purchased before the Big Bump™ in vinyl pricing, but some were rare, others sought after in the collector market and expensive even at the time (now worse, and hard to find at least in top playing condition). So, yeah, I should be "committed" but have loved every minute. 

I don't think you can ignore the cost of cleaning LPs. It doesn't necessarily involve spending big money (though you could) but does require time and effort. It's a factor, along with the cost of the "software" (which used to be called "records").