Considering going Vinyl--Please talk me out of it

Buy used equipment and a couple of albums if you like then you can always dive deeper. If not you can sell all the stuff and not lose much money.

Chuck

Amen Taters!

The point about Hi Def digital surpassing analog has legs, but I think it's flawed. I came back to analog recently (never got rid of my old albums and most of them are in A-condition). I bought a Pro-ject RM10 with a Sumiko Blackbird cartridge for $2880 which elevated my vinyle experience several orders of excellence above the AR-days. My vinyl blows away my several hundred CDs.

Soon after I bought the Pro-ject I bought a Korg MR1000 that'll record 1-bit DSD up to 5.6MHz. This thing matches the analog in resolution.

DVD-Audio is a format that I could be happy with forever, IF I had a broad software selection. SACD has that same potential, but it's really been screwed up with producer's perception that they need to add multi-channel. I think we're moving toward Hi Def programming coming only from downloads, at resolution rates no where near the potential of DSD, much less DVD-A, or fewer and fewer self-produced CDs OR vinyl reissues, which actually seem to be thriving.

Concerns for digital compatability, lack of average consumer demand (dude, mp3 is the best), distribution uncertainties, etc. all adding up to an environment where producers can't afford to take a chance on Hi Rez, except for the vinyl market. Of course that could be wrong.

Vinyl is here right now and thriving. It's just like buying into any new technology, if you wait for things to settle down, you'll likely miss the whole thing.

Dave

I have an Ayre C-5xe which plays all silver discs. Let me tell you that DVD-A and/or SACD is very close to regular CD sound...sometimes not even as good. If the potential is there, I haven't found it. Vinyl overall is the best method to get the highest quality sound into your home. All formats are very variable however, and you can easily find a CD better than a vinyl record, or an SACD better than a CD. For the most part however, vinyl measures up more frequently

Well, I like the czccbl (sounds like a polish name I once tried to pronounce in Chicago and got the door slammed in my face)approach. I can get a great AR mod, do the memory lane thing, buy some old jazz records, and then jump off the vinyl cliff and splatter myself all over the rocks of Obsession, continuing until I have a tt that looks like something the U.S. marines would explode with the aid of their bomb control units......