Anybody added a full vinyl setup to system? And?


Has anybody added a full analog playback to there system recently ?  ( turntable, cartridge, phono amp, cables) 

and what was your verdict ?     And Compared to digital?

I did mine and am very happy 
LP’s are WAY quieter than expected , at my price point. ( Project Classic , Hana SL, Musical Surroundings Phenomona 2 )
I’ve found cables made a bigger difference than expected 

I find digital and analog close, but , just , sound different . I need to play lots more albums to complete compare and contrast . Recording quality is way over the place 

Jeff
frozentundra
Yeah sure I did this too, only not recently but years ago. Back in the 90's I had just about completed my "dream system" which was of course CD. When a book by Robert Harley said the turntable is the cornerstone of any true high end system I was shocked. No way!

Let me tell you, tracking down a good turntable to hear was a lot harder back then than now! Was a lot of trouble but worth it as my first Basis/Graham/Glider sounded wonderful. For a number of years I would listen to both. But over the years it became apparent digital simply isn't all that, its just a whole lot easier to get big improvements with analog, and so now many years later its all I do.

Your ProJect is a nice table. Certainly well worth good wire and a phono stage. If you also put it on some Townshend Pods, or even Nobsound springs, you will be amazed. One of the cooler things about turntables, they are good right out of the box but that's really just a starting point. Simple things like a sand box or massive shelf, springs, fO.q tape, Synergistic PHT, can make your $1800 rig sound more like $5k or more!  

Then again you can always just enjoy what you have. That's the best part. I've always been happy with mine, whatever it was and at whatever stage it was. I never felt the need to make it better. Want to, like to, don't need to. Crucial difference. Enjoy!

I did listen 70% vinyl and my digital is much closer to my vinyl after changing from Rogue Audio to Aesthetix I listen to digital when I have company or looking for new music if I fine some thing I love I will buy it on vinyl 
You can check out my system in virtual systems

Enjoy the Music 
Tom
I added Denon DP80 on DK100, DA401, DL303, and HA1000 a month ago for my Christmas present. It sounds pretty good, even though I expected a bit more.
Welcome to the vinyl club Jeff! There is more to life than fast food ;-)

I had a friend recently take the vinyl plunge with his system and he couldn't be happier!

At the end of the day it really does come down to native formats and the overall production value of the various media. But, other than analog tape, vinyl is damn impressive!
My experience is similar to yours Jeff: The Jury is still out - they both have their pluses and minuses. The new vinyl LPs I've purchased are mostly very quiet (some have faults that sound like a scratch plus the odd click and pop) but the recording quality to me is very, very good. My old LPs from the 70s and 80s are quite poor due to damage and age - most of my classical vinyl is unplayable. I only added a turnable (Technics SL-1210GAE 55th Anniversary Limited Edition which came with a Nagaoka MM cartridge) plus a pair of Chord phono cables. I'm not sure if my set up is truly analogue as my preamp/dac converts everything that comes in to digital and performs RIAA equalisation in the digital domain before the dac converts the signal back to analogue? The other issue, of course, is the 'provenance' of the regular vinyl (not the pricey audiophile issues put out by MoFi, Analogue Productions etc) we buy these days and whether it's just pressed from a digital master. Some might say if it sounds great - and it does - then who cares. It just means we think it's a binary comparison - analogue versus digital - when it actually isn't that straight forward. However, for now I'm really enjoying the vinyl experience - everything from the wonderful sound to the fact I now listen to the whole album which is something I rarely did with CD and almost never with streaming. At its best, digital can be incredible but it seems to me there's a lot of inconsistency and I often find myself scrambling to turn down the volume because of harshness and digital 'glare', or volume mismatching between tracks/albums, which you just don't get with vinyl. Just listened to Led Zeppelin II on 180g vinyl (remastered by Jimmy Page version), and it put a huge grin of my face!