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
Oh one more thing and this is an exception I think to the rule.
If you listen to music from 90’s, 2000’s and modern pop and such then I tend to agree (since this was recorded digitally) that digital most likely could provide better results than vinyl. Digital is science and with a good system with good reconstruction filters, dithering, modulators and such you will achieve outstanding results.
If OTOH you listen to rock, swing, blues and such from the 80’s back then with vinyl you could experience more natural sound than digital, notice I say natural, digital pragmatism states there are no distortions if well implemented on good digital and there will be some distortion on vinyl due to not exact setup, equipment, phono stage and such.
Separate topic with digital sources, I use Tidal and Qobuz, I resample to 1411 PCM and / or 256DSD sometimes, audio from the 70’s Led Zep for example, I don’t like the new released remasters, don’t know why I just don’t like what I hear, I prefer the Redbook from older digital editions, when resampled (or upsampled like others say) to me it sounds better. Is it colored? I don’t know, maybe, but it sounds right.
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Most of what I listen to are recent classical recordings or remastered classical recordings. I would say that 95 percent of classical releases today are in digital format. I doubt that vinyl will gain traction in that genre. If I do listen to popular remastered reissues like MOFI, then I still prefer the digital release over the vinyl. But I doubt there are many art/classical music fans who purchase more vinyl than cd’s unless they are nostalgic for recordings from the 1980’s or earlier. Plus, the quality of most classical recordings from today are phenomenal. If I were to choose popular music and jazz as my primary focus, then vinyl would be more prioritized but it doesn’t make sense to focus on vinyl if nothing ever gets released that way.
I like my vinyl albums mono and stereo .Played on my good system. BUT I also enjoy my cds ,cassettes and RtR to.Its all good .Please you guys with a million dollar systems nothing will ever satisfy you.Have a nice life if you can ,Ever.
I'm in kind of a similar position in that I have a decent rig (Thorens, Lounge, and Signet) with about 400 original records in excellent condition collected since the 60's (I've probably been more careful with my records than anything else I've owned!). Yet I find I spend almost all my time listening to Qobuz with a nice dac accessed through Audirvana. The sound is outstanding, and the convenience of being able to access almost anything I want using my iPhone without ever having to leave my chair is priceless.  I probably will hang on to it though in case the internet ever goes down.  ;)