My system is all digital. I have a farm with a dog and sometimes cats that live with me in the house. It is simply too much trouble to keep vinyl clean. And good digital sounds better than dirty vinyl. I have probably spent less than any of you on equipment - a cheap teac dac ($300), mostly adcom amps & preamps, plus one mac tube amp and an apt preamp where i sit most of the time, and dell desktop.
My music is all on an external hard drive, and it is all downloaded free from various p2p sites and qbitorrent, all high quality (no mp3 unless it is some song I am trying to learn to play on guitar). I mostly listen to classical music, mostly solo, rarely more than a quartet. My first hard drive is 4 Tb, the new one is 5 Tb.
I am very happy with sound quality, and even happier with the ease of selection and play.
I also download movies and documentaries, ie, Attenborough's latest Blue Planet II - again, that is free, all 7 episodes available while the rest of paying USA waits for its weekly dose. And they are all so readily accessible when grandchildren show up on a rainy day.
My music is all on an external hard drive, and it is all downloaded free from various p2p sites and qbitorrent, all high quality (no mp3 unless it is some song I am trying to learn to play on guitar). I mostly listen to classical music, mostly solo, rarely more than a quartet. My first hard drive is 4 Tb, the new one is 5 Tb.
I am very happy with sound quality, and even happier with the ease of selection and play.
I also download movies and documentaries, ie, Attenborough's latest Blue Planet II - again, that is free, all 7 episodes available while the rest of paying USA waits for its weekly dose. And they are all so readily accessible when grandchildren show up on a rainy day.