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Is it all worth it?

Do you ever get the feeling when you start to question whether playing records is really worth it all?
You know with everything involved with great record playback.
The setup, the cleaning regime, the $1000 plus cartridges that start their finite lifespan as soon as stylus first touches vinyl and spirals into less and less value with every play.
All the tweaks involved, cables, mats, isolation etc.
Then the media itself with it's inevitable disapointments.

Don't you just like to push a couple buttons on your phone app and be listening to great sound with a worldwide catalogue at your fingertips.

Or is it that when all of it lines up and the sounds are just sublime, then yes you sit back with a wry smile and say...

Yep, it's all worth it!
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mozartfan
2,143 posts
 
just picked up a  pair of KT150's cheap on ebay,,pluged them into my Jadis Defy7, running 4 KT988's/+ the 2 KT150's in one channel vs the 6 KT88's other channel,,,Yeah its all worth it, 
HUGE sonic gain. with the pair of 150's in the right channel vs the wimpy left/Kt88's. 
The 150 is musical nirvana vs the lack luster 88's. 
got another 10 arriving this week.
Monsta size gain in dynamic fidelity. 
hope that answers your Q. 
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mjcmt
710 posts
 
I enjoy playing LPs with a modest good quality turntable and cartridge. Nothing fancy or expensive. But I do enjoy playing vinyl, not all the time but enough of the time.
hickamore
682 posts
 
Uber, how do you have under $3k in Aurender + good DAC?
Which Aurender and which DAC?
Thanks.
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uberwaltz OP
13,381 posts
 
Hickamore.
Pretty easy really unless you buy all new.
Aurender n100 at $1300 used.
mhdt orchid DAC at $1160 new.
Grannyring double barrel usb cable at $250

Nicely under $3000
wolfie62
353 posts
 
Better than 80% of my music on LPs is not available digitally. 

And, unless you’ve heard it, how would you even know to search for it?

i enjoy the great discoveries in lesser known music only available by picking up an obscure LP and playing it.

Cables, $1000+ cartridges, etc? Not for me. All vintage cartridges here. I’m not into the cable game, either. 
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