Why didn't I sell my vinyl rig?

skinzy

I bought my first pair of AR-2ax with wedding money (Sam Goody’s, NYC) in 1967.

Got ransacked one year, gone. Miserable, I looked for them in garage sales around town, nope.

Recently a discussion was started, the essence: ’ What single audio item do you miss the most’ That cost me some money.

It was my AR-2ax’s. Got a pair for my basement. Restored them: new tweeters, updated crossover, replaced the level controls. Re-stuffed with polyester.

They sounded so good, and luckily just fit the shelves in my office, so here they are, ear level, dead centered, adjusted for the space with the level controls.

I bought a second pair for the basement, and the parts to restore them, but sidelined by foot surgeries, next and hopefully last one 2-9-23. After recovery, 1st order of business, get those AR-2ax’s going.

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Vinyl RIG, yeah I took a dumb shortcut with that, took me a re-read to realize it was me. Regrettable, but, should be my biggest mistake!

Estimations of vinyl vs digital superiority is so well reflected in this thread. The variability is great enough that hard and fast conclusions ridiculous. Both setups can be as simple or as complex as one wants to make it, trying to assemble a single system with perfectly equal vinyl and digital performance is likely a rare thing, I'm trying!

Anyone who feels vinyl is a hassle needs to slow down. You’re saying that 1 minute to clean a record is too much of a hassle, instead you want instant gratification of a lesser quality of music. 
 

Clean records with a quality record cleaner. Invest into a quality vinyl rig. Enjoy your investment knowing that it doesn’t get any better than this.

My experience with streaming music is to have more than one service, as the sound will vary from one to the other. It also varies on the stream’s resolution, is it 44.1, high rez, MQA, or are you using upsampling conversion? Nothing here seems absolute. I still prefer analog, but the gap is narrowing.

Fantastic room!! Maybe a few window treatments would warm up your digital side a bit?. Awesome setting!!