I was ready to leave analog, in the mid eighties, being fed up with crappy, noisy vinyl, but I couldn’t afford a CD player and CDs. Then my lps were destroyed in a flood, and the stores were switching to CDs, and no second hand vinyl at that point. So I bit the bullet and bought a CDP, but could only afford to buy a few CDs a year for many years, until budget CDs came along and my financial situation improved.
Around 2000 with second hand lp stores popping up I got back into analog. At first it was fun but I quickly remembered why I hated it in the first place, and by then the recordings that hadn’t been digitalized previously were available in versions that always bested analog. Sold off my analog rig, gave away the lps, haven’t looked back
Around 2000 with second hand lp stores popping up I got back into analog. At first it was fun but I quickly remembered why I hated it in the first place, and by then the recordings that hadn’t been digitalized previously were available in versions that always bested analog. Sold off my analog rig, gave away the lps, haven’t looked back