Tariffs and sky high audio prices.

@ghasley 

We are of kindred spirit after all!  You might find it interesting that I just replaced all the tubes in my preamp with brand new tubes from Russia.  They have never forsaken the art!

I, too, had abandoned vinyl during the period of digital ascendancy and gave away all of my records.  I was, like so many others, seduced by the signal to noise and the macrodynamics of those early CD's, especially those from Digital Music Products, Windham Hill and Private Music.  Many years later, frustrated at the difficulty of finding some of my favorites from the 60's and 70's on CD, I ventured back into vinyl.  My initial intent was to buy just those old album not found on CD.

What I didn't realize was that my early impressions of vinyl were based on entry level equipment playing records that had seen too many frat parties.  I got VPI Classic 3 with a Dynavector Te Kaitora Rua and nice Rogue Audio vacuum tube preamp.  I was stunned by what I heard coming off of LPs in mint condition.  Now I play vinyl almost exclusively, but it's not a religious thing with me ... I just found a copy of Medeski Martin and Wood on DVD-Audio.  Played on my Oppo 203, the sound is amazing!

nonoise, you are right.
There is that seduction of the evil, some are very responsive to it.
My relative died fighting them in Europe.

"....now, wouldn't it be nice if the populace (the world) would support and fund such important purchases...call it the environmental version of a stock buyback, to purchase large blocks of land to take it off the market forever."

Ted Turner does something like that.

Inna, our paths overlap. Nothing like a good Veen Diagram.  By the way, did you notice the awkward silence?

Those who have no real skin in the game can afford the price of the armchair warrior for (fill in the blank) cause. From the basement of their parents homes and the infernal pits of their imaginings (god forbid) they can rant, rave, and pontificate to their hearts desires, as long as they follow the script laid out for them, like a black and white coloring book with the prescribed colors laid out for them. 

Color outside the lines and they lose membership as it's a rigid formula they must adhere to. That's the basis for authoritarianism.  Anyone with a passing interest can simply look it up. 

Ignore it all and you'll just repeat it. For some, it's the easier way to go through life.

All the best,
Nonoise

"...there was a 75th Anniversary of allied forces landing in Normandy two days ago. That was a bloody and decisive campaign."

There was a 75th anniversary of Monte Cassino just two or three weeks earlier. For some reason, that one is rarely mentioned.

Tariffs and globalization aside, it included many countries. From Poland, across India, to New Zealand and a few more to the South and West and in between. If it were not for Roger Waters, even Anzio would have a hard time finding its way to an average audiophile home, it seems.