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Is It Time To Sell My Vinyl Rig?

Hey All,
There once was a time when I looked forward to shopping for arcane mono classical and jazz vinyl. The anticipation of hearing a newly cleaned recording from 1957 that I didn’t realize existed until just a few hours prior. The satisfaction of owning 200 plus records. But now since I’ve upgraded my DAC and Transport, I’ve become disenchanted with vinyl. It still sounds musical but not nearly as close to a live performance as my digital setup. So I’m now I’m thinking about selling my ASR Mini Basis Exclusive MK 2 phono preamp and my modified Thorens TD 145 with AT 33 mono anniversary cartridge. I could put the money towards a surgical procedure that I’ve been putting off. Will I regret this afterwords? I don’t even know how much to ask for the equipment or whether someone would even take an interest in it. Any ideas out there?
goofyfoot
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fuzztone
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Give it a rest Chuckles 
goofy, you realize no resolution to your dilemma can be attained here?
Best of luck to you.
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fuzztone
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True dat a2d
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goofyfoot OP
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Someday in the future, I may have the possibility of picking up a nice reel to reel in order to play those $600.00 Analogue Production tape releases. By the way, who is manufacturing reel to reel tapes anymore?
keegiam
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I would bet that we older audiophiles spent more time enjoying live music played by humans using real musical instruments than those who consider digital superior.

I grew up playing music in the middle of school orchestras.  Surrounded by flutes, trumpets, baritones (which I played), french horns, violins, cellos, tubas, tympani, oboes and snare drums for many years (11 to be exact).  When I hear instruments reproduced on an audio system, I can quickly tell whether they're convincing or not.

Vinyl does the best job of doing that, as long as the turntable/arm/cartridge combo is up to the task.  Therein lies the rub.  It's expensive to get great vinyl playback.
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