Three turntables, five tonearms, two streamers. Streaming accounts for around 1% of my listening time, and it is mainly to see whether I want to buy the LP. My streamers sound good enough. I just loose interest and go do something else. Vinyl glues me to the couch.
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.
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The other night, I sampled one half of a gummy bear that someone gave me, just to see if it would do anything. Then I settled in to listen to LPs. Although the music was utterly sublime, I soon realized that I was in no condition to perform the mechanical tasks needed to play records, without risk of damaging LPs, the stylus, the entire audio system. So I shut down the system. Took me that whole evening until the next morning until I felt normal. Booze never does that. |
@lewm - all that on half a gummy? Dang, I wish I could get a buzz that cheaply - I would need at least 20 of those gummies before I'd start to feel anything.... But I always enjoy cannabis with my music.... |
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. |
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