End of the World system


So here's a question.   You and your loved ones are the last one's on earth. Your fully stocked with a cabin in the woods, renewable energy, and food for a life time.  The roads are out, and there's no place to get gas.

The remains of a high-end store are 20 miles away. What do you bring home, assuming you have to actually carry it back?
erik_squires
Here's my assumptions:
1.  My cabin had my current equipment and music media - albums, cds, tapes, hard-drive of music
2.  There's no more stream services operating
3.  I have some sort of wheeled cart.

If its 20 miles I can make many many trips...no one else is left.  Therefore, step one is to make sure the store has a good waterproof and dust proof structure.

My priorities are music media.  Then upgrading the turntable.  Based on the cartridges...I'd create a nice MC turntable.  After that its all gravy :) 
So I'm to assume all the talented musicians still performing music would be gone...
OK, never mind the weight, but Steinway is now making a piano which can play back and/or record thousands of songs via an iPad and solenoids under the keys. You click on Horowitz or Glenn Gould, or Oscar Peterson, etc. I would buy a few great-sounding acoustic guitars, a Matchless DC-30 Amp and some PRS electrics. Along with a great guitar rack. Also a few outstanding keyboards.
The sound system would have to be matched to the room I place it in.
Rowland gear would be nice enough, with a musical digital front end.
The turntable would have to be fairly compact and easy to set up and use- like a VPI or a Linn. I've heard and enjoyed HUGE speakers, but I would rather get something smaller that still does 20-20K, and it would have to look aesthetically appealing as well.
    But I would give all this up for a neighbor who could come visit and really play an instrument well and/or sing- Live. 
mrklas:
I’d create a nice MC turntable. After that its all gravy :)

You can copy one. You can build one. But there is only one Miller Carbon, and you’re a little late to try and create it. https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/8367 About 17 years too late to be exact.

My cabin also has a Blackfly VTOL electric aircraft. The rest of you are amateurs.