@orpheus10
This is true, for me analog only getting better and better and it’s quite interesting process.
@elizabeth
Well, i don’t want to buy 5 different pressings of the same record, but i can buy 5 different cartridges to make all my LPs sound better. However, some of my rare 45s cost more that very expensive cartridges (but it’s not necessary that i paid that much for rare 45s which is now cost 5 times as much than 15 years ago).
Anyway most of the serious collectors that i know all over the world will never pay more than $150 for a cartridge and more than $500 for a turntable with toneam. Thye don’t even know how to set up a cartridge. Also for some reason those people don’t believe they can hear the difference (i think they never tried to compare) and most of them considering audiophilia as some sort of illness. At the same time i am considering their hobby to pay $500-1000 for a very rare record in VG condition as some sort of illness too. They could sell a few rare records to buy proper equipment to enjoy entire collection on the different level, but they don’t want and don’t need this experience.
Once you’ve been to New York or Paris, you can never go back home; or once you’ve been to the high end, you can never go back to "mid fi".
This is true, for me analog only getting better and better and it’s quite interesting process.
@elizabeth
Well it IS about the music right? not high end turntables and exotic cartridges.. OH sorry, for you it IS about the high end turntables and exotic carts...
Well, i don’t want to buy 5 different pressings of the same record, but i can buy 5 different cartridges to make all my LPs sound better. However, some of my rare 45s cost more that very expensive cartridges (but it’s not necessary that i paid that much for rare 45s which is now cost 5 times as much than 15 years ago).
Anyway most of the serious collectors that i know all over the world will never pay more than $150 for a cartridge and more than $500 for a turntable with toneam. Thye don’t even know how to set up a cartridge. Also for some reason those people don’t believe they can hear the difference (i think they never tried to compare) and most of them considering audiophilia as some sort of illness. At the same time i am considering their hobby to pay $500-1000 for a very rare record in VG condition as some sort of illness too. They could sell a few rare records to buy proper equipment to enjoy entire collection on the different level, but they don’t want and don’t need this experience.